The ferruginous hawk continued at Morris Island in Chatham, where other sightings included a semipalmated plover, 12 black-bellied plovers, 200 dunlin, and 8 Northern harriers.

“For nearly 250 years, we called the bald eagle the national bird when it wasn’t,” said Jack Davis, co-chair of the National Bird Initiative for the National Eagle Center, in a news release. “But now ...

Collisions with wind turbines are a documented threat to the lives of individual raptors. However, wind development also ...