He’s a red-tailed hawk who has been taking care of a lot of the hunting. "She's had to rely more on her mate to help with that, especially during the nesting season,” O’Brien explained to WVLT.

The red-tailed hawk continues to bedevil me. This is not too surprising, since the redtail is the most common raptor here. It is also the most variable in plumage and, it turns out, in habitat ...

Brian Black photographed a red-tailed hawk near the Chicago lakefront that seemed to be critiquing Black’s tennis game. The mystery of a leg band on the raptor led into the maze of bird bands.

This is one of the [red admiral] butterflies on the bush. There was about two dozen flying all around it.” Deb Pup, Norwood Park One of the admiral butterflies on lilacs in Norwood Park.