May 13, 1978 was a big day for birders Frank Bader and Milton Rinehart. While poking around Green Lawn Cemetery on Columbus’s south side, they discovered Ohio’s first record of Mississippi kite. I’m ...

They dart and dash through the sky, hovering in the air one second before plummeting from the cloud plumes the next. Swallow-tailed kites are arguably the most acrobatic and athletic of birds found in ...

Swallow-tailed kites are soaring again above the fields of Allendale and surrounding area, where they gather in large numbers every summer from mid-July to mid-August. The big black and white birds ...

A group of photography friends arrived by boat at daybreak recently to seek out hundreds of what are called the planet’s coolest bird. Somewhere along the St. Johns River, they found a roost of ...

JACKSON • Swallow-tailed kites are among Mississippi's most striking birds with their contrasting black and white feathers and long V-shaped tails. Researchers have asked that sightings of ...

There was quite a stir this week among birdwatchers after the sighting of a swallow-tailed kite, a migratory bird of prey that hasn't been seen in Shawnee County since the 1970s. Though the birds are ...

The aerial show was awesome — swooping, gliding, banking, rolling upside down and other airborne acrobatics. We were not watching a Blue Angels air show but instead a gathering of swallow-tailed kites ...

They're acrobatic magicians, raptors that hunt, eat and live mostly on the wing. Known for their aerial grace and their ability to snatch shifty prey out of the air, swallow-tailed kites spend much of ...