Welcome to the first installment of “The Coolest Birds.” When I launched Paste Magazine with friends back in 2002, it was about our collective passion—for music, film, books and culture. As we’ve ...

There was quite a stir this week among birdwatchers after the sighting of a swallow-tailed kite, a migratory bird of prey that hasn't been seen in Shawnee County since the 1970s. Though the birds are ...

Swallow-tailed kites are soaring again above the fields of Allendale and surrounding area, where they gather in large numbers every summer from mid-July to mid-August. The big black and white birds ...

You’re not likely to mistake a swallow-tailed kite for any other bird on the wing. The medium-sized raptor with coloration similar to a sea gull, a dove-like face and a huge forked tail is distinct by ...

The aerial show was awesome — swooping, gliding, banking, rolling upside down and other airborne acrobatics. We were not watching a Blue Angels air show but instead a gathering of swallow-tailed kites ...

Swallow-tailed kites are one of Florida's gemstone birds, mostly because of their annual migration and aerial acrobatics. The beautiful, comparatively small raptors recently arrived in Southwest ...

For the past few weeks, the prospect of seeing two of Georgia’s — and the nation’s — most spectacularly flying bird species has been drawing birders, including me, to some old agricultural fields near ...

They dart and dash through the sky, hovering in the air one second before plummeting from the cloud plumes the next. Swallow-tailed kites are arguably the most acrobatic and athletic of birds found in ...

A bird has been spotted in Will County for the first time and photographed in and around the Forest Preserve District of Will County’s Hadley Valley Preserve. A photo of a swallow-tailed kite was ...

Here's who to email or call to report a sighting. Sightings have been reported in these Mississippi counties. Information about sightings helps biologists monitor, protect nesting neighborhoods.

They're the acrobats of the skies, the birds that look as though they're somehow defying gravity when conducting aerial maneuvers. Swallow-tailed kites arrived in Florida a few weeks ago, and now is ...