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WAUWATOSA – The mercury hit the low 90s Tuesday and extreme heat advisories were issued in southeastern Wisconsin. Sweltery summer weather to be sure. But Tuesday evening one of the leading indicators ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) -- The bird of the week this week is the common nighthawk. It is not actually a hawk, but a member of the Goatsucker family. They are closely related to Chuck-will's-widow and ...

“You’ve got to take a look at this,” said a fellow employee as I left the newspaper office one afternoon last week. He pointed skyward, over Sixth and Linden streets in downtown Allentown, to a ...

Residents have slammed the “horrendous” congestion caused by a crowd of birdwatchers who flocked to a Oxfordshire town to snap pictures of a rare bird. The photographers descended on Hallett Close in ...

I don’t often recommend going downtown to look for birds. There’s not much in the way of quality bird habitats in the city center except for pigeons, starlings and house sparrows. But downtown is just ...

Common nighthawks, whip-poor-wills and chuck-will's-widows are similar in appearance, but their habits, habitats and songs help in telling them apart. Oklahoma is home to several members of the family ...

Plentiful fruit and insects at the Parker River refuge attracts tens of thousands of swallows in mid-August and this birding spectacle is one worth seeing before they are gone in the next week or two.

The NNU administration must have been very cranky and weary when they chose to change the school mascot from Crusaders to Nighthawks. Nighthawks are small raptors that primarily eat flying insects.

Allen bird Club nighthawks watch Longmeadow - Nighthawks are migrating through our area at this time on their way to South America. The Allen Bird Club is holding a special evening nighthawk watch on ...