Look at the chart above to help you with hawk identification in flight. The shape of the wings can offer cues to which family your raptor is in. Accipiter wings have a rounded or pointy shape.

Hawk identification can be tricky, after all. Here, he offers a few quick tips to help you learn the five hawk species that frequent East Tennessee. (The following ID tips focus on adult hawks.

Bill Clark, an international hawk identification expert, will teach a class at Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve and lead field trips over three days starting Friday, Feb. 20.

GREENWICH — Birders celebrated the start of hawk migration season with the Hawk Watch Kickoff and Raptor ID Workshop at Audubon Greenwich on Sunday. Audubon naturalist Ryan MacLean helped ...