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 ...

UPDATE: Mike Dupuy was acquitted in a federal court of the charges against him on Feb. 18, 2015. Mike Dupuy, a Middleburg master falconer and raptor breeder, will go into federal court Wednesday ...

MADISON — A federal judge fined a Wisconsin falconer and ordered him to forfeit his truck for poaching a raptor. According to prosecutors and court documents, 69-year-old James Kitzman of Oak Creek ...

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 ...

The weather was fine for hunting that January morning, and behind the Audubon Center in Glastonbury there was likely some small game about. But Theron, a two-year-old male red-tailed hawk, was just a ...