Readers often email me this time of year, sometimes with accompanying photos, to find out the identity of a sleek, grayish, hawklike bird. What they are usually seeing is a Mississippi kite, and ...

Sleek, graceful, pearly-gray 15-inch-long falcon-like birds with three-foot wingspans, black tails and red eyes — Mississippi kites, as the name suggests, typically inhabit southern climes. In 2007, ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A homeowner in Midlothian was in for a surprise when they found out the “baby owl” they spotted in their backyard was actually a species of bird that didn’t belong in Virginia.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AGFC) - This week's bird will be the Mississippi Kite. This is a graceful, medium-sized hawk with long wings and a squared tail that is common throughout central, southern, and ...

This is New Hampshire Audubon’s Rare Bird Alert, provided to WMUR.com as of Wednesday, May 28, 2014.Mississippi kites were seen soaring above downtown Newmarket on Monday.Sandhill cranes have returned ...

MANKATO — On a balmy late August day, Jim Amundson, of Lake Crystal, was settling into his daily routine of counting raptors passing through the Minnesota River Valley at Land of Memories Park in ...

WHO: Taquito the baby bird. WHAT: A lost Mississippi kite hatchling is wrapped in a flour tortilla and saved. WHY IT’S SO GREAT: We here at Texas Monthly are smitten with animals. Our regular ...

National Kite Flying Day is celebrated annually on February 8. It is a day to step into the great outdoors, feel the winter ...

For the past few weeks, the prospect of seeing two of Georgia’s — and the nation’s — most spectacularly flying bird species has been drawing birders, including me, to some old agricultural fields near ...

Readers often email me this time of year, sometimes with accompanying photos, to find out the identity of a sleek, grayish, hawklike bird. What they are usually seeing is a Mississippi kite, and ...