Discover fascinating facts about extreme bird feathers. Most hawks and eagles have passive soaring wings. The long primary and secondary feathers associated with this wing shape make slow gliding ...

A common hawk of wet deciduous ... A medium-size buteo with rounded wing tips that do not reach the tip of the tail. Adult: brown above with lighter feather edges and some streaking on head.

Police are investigating after a red-tailed hawk was found in Paxton, Massachusetts, with the feathers of its wings and tail cut off. "When I first held the bird, I noticed that every single ...