May 13, 1978 was a big day for birders Frank Bader and Milton Rinehart. While poking around Green Lawn Cemetery on Columbus’s south side, they discovered Ohio’s first record of Mississippi kite. I’m ...

Swallow-tailed kites are soaring again above the fields of Allendale and surrounding area, where they gather in large numbers every summer from mid-July to mid-August. The big black and white birds ...

With talons spread, a swallow-tailed kite closes in on an insect (center, upper right) for a quick bite on the fly. Anyone who sees one of these marvelous, soaring hawks is asked to asked to jot down ...

Swallow-tailed kites may not exactly hunt collaboratively, she said, but they do work in groups. “If I’m watching kites from an airplane, I’ll be like, ‘Oh, that’s interesting, it’s hunting all by ...

In a poison ivy–filled thicket under loblolly pines, Jennifer Coulson bushwhacked to the base of the tree where swallow-tailed kites had built a nest. She rummaged through leaf litter to find a clump ...

We had been cruising U.S. 90 between Liberty and Dayton in the last week of July looking for swallow-tailed kites on their annual migration south. The birds rank among my wife Kathy's favorites to ...

There was quite a stir this week among birdwatchers after the sighting of a swallow-tailed kite, a migratory bird of prey that hasn't been seen in Shawnee County since the 1970s. Though the birds are ...

A group of photography friends arrived by boat at daybreak recently to seek out hundreds of what are called the planet’s coolest bird. Somewhere along the St. Johns River, they found a roost of ...

Sightings of one of Mississippi's most striking raptors in the central part of the state have made somewhat of a stir in recent years. "We've been getting breeding sightings in central Mississippi for ...

Swallow-tailed kites are one of Florida's gemstone birds, mostly because of their annual migration and aerial acrobatics. The beautiful, comparatively small raptors recently arrived in Southwest ...