In this age of streaming services and smart phone apps, the simple act of flying a kite may appear to be an antiquated ritual. Yet for one weekend each year, children and adults have the opportunity ...

With the annual Pilot Mountain Hawk Watch only a week away, my birding focus is shifting to raptors. For three weeks in September, local birders scan the skies at the mountain for migrating hawks, ...

Nick Stephenson said he remembers when he first started flying a kite about seven years ago. Things didn’t, he said, exactly get off to a flying start. “At first I was terrible at it, but the next day ...

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 ...

When I was a fourth grade elementary school girl, my family and I left the United States and returned to Japan. At my new school, I learned a song entitled Tombi, or Black Kite. It was an old song ...