Today we meet the gray hawk, a pretty bird of prey from the northern parts of Costa Rica with a nearly identical twin flying around the southern parts of the country. These birds enjoy eating animals ...

On his drive to see some geese Sunday afternoon, Central Coast birder Eric Culbertson spotted a small raptor he’d never seen before. It was sitting sentry on a power line, scanning the landscape off ...

DEAR JOAN: This very large bird has intrigued me from his or her perch for more than a year now. I can only view it through binoculars, but it always sits in this high spot on one of the redwoods ...

Often it is the common critters that go unnoticed or at least unappreciated. After all, when was the last time you noticed a house sparrow or pigeon? How about an eastern chipmunk or gray squirrel?