At hundreds of festivals each year around the world, enthusiasts grab their aerial toys and hope for the perfect windy ...

Swallow-tailed kites are a migratory bird species that can be seen in Florida for a portion of the year. Swallow-tailed kites make their nests in tall trees and are social birds, often congregating in ...

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 ...

What do you get when you combine the broad wings and big body of a raptor with a little curved beak on a small dove-like head? You get the gray-headed kite. The gray-headed kite (Leptodon cayanensis) ...

Welcome to the first installment of “The Coolest Birds.” When I launched Paste Magazine with friends back in 2002, it was about our collective passion—for music, film, books and culture. As we’ve ...

Now that it’s the last week of May the spring migration of raptors is almost done around here. Actually it’s been mostly over for a few weeks except for a late hawk or osprey here and there. Recently, ...

Two brothers have given everything to treat raptors injured by a popular pastime. A black kite, a carnivorous scavenger, flying over the Ghazipur area of New Delhi. Black kites are a common sight in ...

A red kite, or Milvus, a medium-sized bird of prey that is rare in Turkey, was spotted in İstanbul. The bird from the Accipitridae family, also known as the Hawk or Vulture family, was sighted by a ...

If you’re in Alabama’s Black Belt this summer, perhaps for this weekend’s birding festival, you’ll almost certainly get to see this haunting bird circling overhead. “It’s like going to an air show ...