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 ...

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, ...

A Mississippi kite nest was found with one chick, and at least three adults were seen in the same area in Newmarket on July 23.This sighting was included in the New Hampshire Audubon's rare bird alert ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A homeowner in Midlothian was in for a surprise when they found out the “baby owl” they spotted in their backyard was actually a species of bird that didn’t belong in Virginia.

This is New Hampshire Audubon’s Rare Bird Alert, provided to WMUR.com as of Wednesday, May 28, 2014.Mississippi kites were seen soaring above downtown Newmarket on Monday.Sandhill cranes have returned ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AGFC) - This week's bird will be the Mississippi Kite. This is a graceful, medium-sized hawk with long wings and a squared tail that is common throughout central, southern, and ...

Keep an eye peeled toward the sky to spot fleets of sleek, gray-bodied, falcon-like birds sailing through August skies. The wondrous birds will be Mississippi kites flying over neighborhoods and ...

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 ...

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 ...