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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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, ...

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 ...

Author and falconer Helen Macdonald takes her new goshawk Lupin out for a first test flight. As a precaution, the hawk is tethered with a long line of braided cotton called a creance and outfitted ...