South Alabama’s swamps, wetlands and prairies are home to one of the most graceful fliers in the bird world. The swallow-tailed kite lurks in the tops of trees and soars over open fields. Like their ...

When Mississippi kites aren't soaring and looking for dragonflies, they can frequently be found perching on dead limbs and in dead trees. There is nothing more spectacular, and probably ...

AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) — An unusual method in rescuing a possibly orphaned Mississippi Kite, a quick thinking family finds a way to keep it warm until the Wild West Wildlife Rehabilitation Center ...

If you’re in Alabama’s Black Belt this summer, perhaps for this weekend’s birding festival, you’ll almost certainly get to see this haunting bird circling overhead. “It’s like going to an air show ...

NOBLE, Oklahoma -- One month ago they were jumping out of their nests, trying to stay cool in this triple digit heat. Saturday, almost 50 Mississippi Kites were released back into the wild after being ...

Cape Girardeau Conservation Nature Center assistant manager Alex Holmes shares how to spot a Mississippi kite, which he describes as the most playful of the birds of prey. Go fly a kite! Or, you could ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Three small insect-eating raptors called Mississippi kites were released Friday by Louisiana State University's wildlife hospital. The release in Baton Rouge was timed so the birds, ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — The LSU School of Veterinary Medicine Wildlife Hospital of Louisiana has already treated more Mississippi kites with gunshot wounds than they did throughout 2024.

The bird-watching community in southern New Jersey is having a kite festival this spring, the kind where you can go spy a kite instead of fly one. Mississippi kites, southern birds of prey that sail ...