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 ...

Much of 'H Is for Hawk' finds the actor performing solo opposite a bird. Go 'along for the ride' with Foy, Philippa Lowthorpe ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lauded British photojournalist Alisdair Macdonald was many things: A long-time employee of the Daily Mirror, a well-known documenter of The Beatles, and a celebrated falconer. He was also a beloved ...

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, ...

Helen Macdonald was at home in Cambridge, England, when she got a phone call saying her father, Alisdair, had died suddenly of a heart attack on a London street. The news shattered her world, ...

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 ...