NEEDHAM, Mass. — Surveillance video shows the scary moment when a red-tailed hawk swooped down at a mother and her 2-year-old daughter while they were playing outside in Needham, Massachusetts.

Their loud, shrill Kee-aah call is repeated and has an inflection that rises then falls. To compare, the red-tailed hawk’s call sounds more hoarse and piercing.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation rescued an injured red-tailed hawk from a well in Oyster Bay on July 22.

A red-tailed hawk’s diet mainly consists of mice and other small rodents, snakes, squirrels and beetles; in the summer, hawks also tend to munch on grasshoppers.

A red-tailed hawk smashed through a second floor window of a Half Moon Bay apartment complex, triggering a rescue effort by firefighters, sheriff’s deputies and animal care professionals ...

SHREWSBURY, Massachusetts (WCVB) — Police are investigating after a red-tailed hawk was found in Paxton, Massachusetts, with the feathers of its wings and tail cut off. “When I first held the ...

NEEDHAM, Massachusetts (WCVB) — Surveillance video shows the scary moment when a red-tailed hawk swooped down at a mother and her 2-year-old daughter while they were playing outside in Needham ...