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 ...

Want to know their range? The source of their name? What their call sounds like? Cornell Ornithology lab once again provides a comprehensive and well researched guide to the goshawk and virtually ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

By the end of the 19th century Goshawks were all but extinct as a breeding bird in the UK. This was mainly due to loss of ...

I observe this rather large hawk, brown with a striped breast and a long, barred tail. It moves its head to the right, then to the left, offering a nice beaky profile. Immediately I think Cooper’s ...

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 ...