DARKE COUNTY — A red-tailed hawk named Spirit is missing after a bird enclosure was defaced at a local parks district. Darke County Parks shared that its mew was defaced and Spirit was released ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – For the last eight days, community members have been searching for a missing Red-tailed Hawk named Spirit from Shawnee Prairie Preserve. The Darke County Sheriff’s Office said ...

Every birder knows it—hawks are some of the trickiest birds to identify. Sure, it's almost always obvious when you've seen a hawk. But which hawk? Red-tailed hawks are widespread across most of the ...

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 ...

Darke County Parks District's red-tailed hawks Spirit and Sky. Photo from Darke County Parks via social media. Senior Associate Reporter Darke County Parks District's red-tailed hawks Spirit and Sky.