WAUWATOSA – The mercury hit the low 90s Tuesday and extreme heat advisories were issued in southeastern Wisconsin. Sweltery summer weather to be sure. But Tuesday evening one of the leading indicators ...

I don’t often recommend going downtown to look for birds. There’s not much in the way of quality bird habitats in the city center except for pigeons, starlings and house sparrows. But downtown is just ...

Birdwatchers who descended on an Oxfordshire town for the chance to snap an extremely rare bird have raised thousands of pounds for charity. Photographers headed to Hallett Close in Wantage on Monday ...

The curious common nighthawk is actually not a hawk, and in Teller County it’s not very common, either. They are a member of an odd group called nightjars that are more closely related to owls. Like ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) -- The bird of the week this week is the common nighthawk. It is not actually a hawk, but a member of the Goatsucker family. They are closely related to Chuck-will's-widow and ...

“You’ve got to take a look at this,” said a fellow employee as I left the newspaper office one afternoon last week. He pointed skyward, over Sixth and Linden streets in downtown Allentown, to a ...

Common nighthawks, whip-poor-wills and chuck-will's-widows are similar in appearance, but their habits, habitats and songs help in telling them apart. Oklahoma is home to several members of the family ...

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Plentiful fruit and insects at the Parker River refuge attracts tens of thousands of swallows in mid-August and this birding spectacle is one worth seeing before they are gone in the next week or two.

The NNU administration must have been very cranky and weary when they chose to change the school mascot from Crusaders to Nighthawks. Nighthawks are small raptors that primarily eat flying insects.