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 ...

Ben knew that I’ve recently had a growing desire to capture and train a new goshawk to use in falconry. A published authority on the species, Ohlander has been studying, trapping, banding and flying ...

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 ...

Spider friendly raptor swoops into local business. The Gabar Goshawk could not figure out how to leave once it had entered ...

In her best-selling 2015 book "H is for Hawk," Helen Macdonald wrote about training a goshawk after her father’s death. Now a new Nature special, "H is for Hawk: A New Chapter," follows Macdonald as ...

British writer and naturalist Helen Macdonald knew that when she set out to train a goshawk, death would be part of the equation. Goshawks are fierce predators, and taming one would mean participating ...

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 ...

Writer, naturalist and historian Helen Macdonald has a longtime love of falconry, but she'd never taken on a goshawk - the bird had a reputation as a vicious predator. But when her father died ...

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 ...

Stream now or tune in Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 7 p.m. & Sunday, March 14 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 —A Personal Story of Life, Loss And Falconry— After the unexpected death of her photojournalist father, ...

A group of Island cyclists say they're glad they were wearing their helmets on the Confederation Trail when a hawk attacked them Monday. Paula Finkle, Jeannine Carver, Cathy Wood and three others were ...