In 2007, writer and falconer Helen Macdonald lost her father suddenly and tragically to a heart attack. The two were close, and in order to find a way through her grief, she retreated to a childhood ...

People have trained hawks for thousands of years and a hawk must always be tamed from scratch. Witness a tense first meeting between “H Is for Hawk” author Helen Macdonald and her new trainee–a ...

"The Grey Ghost" (Accipiter gentilis). A brief history of the goshawk and falconry. Falconers have trained goshawks for more ...

Broad-winged hawks are the most common raptor at Hawk Ridge. Bald eagles are the biggest. Sharpshins come through by the hundreds early each fall. But northern goshawks, the fierce hunters of the ...

DULUTH, Minn.—Broad-winged hawks are the most common raptor at Hawk Ridge. Bald eagles are the biggest. Sharpshins come through by the hundreds early each fall. But northern goshawks, the fierce ...

A northern goshawk chick that fell out of its nest is back in the wild after a two-month rehabilitation at the MARS Wildlife Recovery Centre in Merville. The northern goshawk is the largest accipiter ...

This helmeted hawk may look ready for battle, but she’s actually about to do some serious science. Researchers who strapped a camera to a goshawk’s head have discovered that these birds of prey use a ...

Helen Macdonald’s “H Is for Hawk” is one of a kind, unless there are other grief memoirs/falconry tales/literary analyses out there. But really, it is one of a kind for its voice. British author ...

For author Helen Macdonald, a recent March morning in Miami brought her both sorrow and joy. March 20 marked the ninth anniversary of her father’s death, but on that day she also saw a swallow-tailed ...

This gallery is from Natural World 2017-2018, H is for Hawk: A New Chapter Helen Macdonald trains a goshawk and follows a wild goshawk family at the nest. BBC Two ...

Movies about the relationship between a person and one of God’s creatures is becoming a virtual genre of its own. My Penguin Friend, Penguin Lessons, The Starling and Penguin Bloom are recent examples ...

POLICE and nature experts were yesterday trying to solve the mystery of who climbed a tall fir tree to the nest of one of Scotland's rarest birds and pricked its eggs so they will never hatch. The ...