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 ...

"The Grey Ghost" (Accipiter gentilis). A brief history of the goshawk and falconry. Falconers have trained goshawks for more ...

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 ...

Two falconers were sentenced March 2 for violations of the Lacey Act and other offenses for their roles in the illegal barter of a wild northern goshawk taken from a nest in Wisconsin. James Kitzman, ...

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 ...

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, ...

During the fall hunting season, Al Jordan is out nearly every day -- looking for squirrels, rabbits, ducks, wild turkey, mink and other small game. But he doesn't carry a gun or a bow. Jordan, of ...

As soon as Hashbrown launches from his arm, Tyler Sladen starts running. I follow, sprinting through the soft New Mexican sand, dodging cholla cactus and piles of trash, and trying not to lose sight ...

New research from The Auk: Ornithological Advances suggests that the neural processes underlying visual hunting behavior in hawks are similar to those in humans. To study a raptor's head movements ...