This bird was in flight, but it wasn’t soaring high above the fields as ... These clues told me that this bird is a male northern harrier, a visitor seen rarely in the northwest Piedmont in ...

When they're soaring, they have long, thin wings and a white rump patch," said Andrea Faas, a naturalist with the Pioneers Park Nature Center. The northern harrier was found near Platte Center in ...

On a continent-wide basis, it is presumed northern harrier populations are experiencing a gradual decline due to the declining amount of grassland and marsh habitat that they frequent. Northern ...

An extremely rare bird of prey has been spotted soaring near the New ... Scotland and parts of upland Wales, Northern Ireland ...