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 ...

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 ...

Welcome to the first installment of “The Coolest Birds.” When I launched Paste Magazine with friends back in 2002, it was about our collective passion—for music, film, books and culture. As we’ve ...

They're the acrobats of the skies, the birds that look as though they're somehow defying gravity when conducting aerial maneuvers. Swallow-tailed kites arrived in Florida a few weeks ago, and now is ...

People who seek rare birds are called "chasers" or "listers" in the United States and "twitchers" overseas. To some people, such an avocation might seem silly, especially if the quarry is an obscure ...

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 ...

We had been cruising U.S. 90 between Liberty and Dayton in the last week of July looking for swallow-tailed kites on their annual migration south. The birds rank among my wife Kathy's favorites to ...

A bird has been spotted in Will County for the first time and photographed in and around the Forest Preserve District of Will County’s Hadley Valley Preserve. A photo of a swallow-tailed kite was ...

Swallow-tailed kites are a migratory bird species that can be seen in Florida for a portion of the year. Swallow-tailed kites make their nests in tall trees and are social birds, often congregating in ...