I have a friend who measures outings in red-tailed hawks. “It was a five-hawk drive,” she’ll exclaim after visiting a bucolic setting. That’s an easy image to conjure: fierce hawks perched high on ...

Caring for over 200 carnivorous birds per year, this LSU veterinary program is helping keep the ecosystem in balance.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT/Gray News) - Almost 2.5 million rad-tailed hawks call North America home, but one of those birds in Tennessee is changing how scientists think, thanks to her survival story.

Under the shade of oak trees in the late afternoon, about 200 people were fixated on Buster, a red-tailed hawk. As handler Christian Gonzalez slowly walked through the crowd with Buster on his gloved ...