Birds soar and swoop. White-tailed kites also hover in a hunting behavior known as "helicoptering." The handsome black-and-white-plumed bird glides gracefully over open fields, then hovers over likely ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In hardly any time, and with a little help from your feathered friends, you can make a lightweight bird kite. This tiny toy is attractive and also quite simple to assemble, because the body is plastic ...

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, ...

With the annual Pilot Mountain Hawk Watch only a week away, my birding focus is shifting to raptors. For three weeks in September, local birders scan the skies at the mountain for migrating hawks, ...

Mohammad Saud (left) is one of two bird-saving brothers profiled in the documentary All The Breathes. Above, he and his employee and friend Salik Rehman tend to an injured kite. The tale of two ...

It’s not easy to make a living as a bird of prey, especially if you’re a Florida snail kite. Once at risk of starvation due to declines in its favored prey, the endangered bird is now facing a ...