Birds Are Wildlife

The Apocalypse of the Baby Hawks Haunts Me

Why must the innocent pay the price?

A young Cooper’s Hawk spreads its feathers / Photo by Rodney Campbell (“AcrylicArtist”) via CC-by-2.0 license

Ever since I heard about the so-called “hawkpocalypse,” I can’t get it out of my mind. Hatched in their treetop nests earlier this summer during a record-shattering heat wave, baby hawks in the Pacific Northwest found themselves in a gruesome hell world of heat and fire. To…