INDIANAPOLIS — In 2014, author Helen Macdonald shared her grief by writing a memoir called "H Is for Hawk," now being adapted into a movie starring two-time Emmy winner Claire Foy ("The Crown," "First ...

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 ...

Northern goshawk (accipiter gentilis) searching for food and flying in the forest of Noord Brabant in the Netherlands© Henk Bogaard/Shutterstock.com Hawks have long been symbols of power, precision, ...

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 ...

Archive ‘H is for Hawk’ Is This Year's ‘Goldfinch’ Lethal Helen Macdonald talks about H Is for Hawk, her extraordinary memoir about the death of her father, the training of a goshawk, and the author T ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The nearly half-century tally of birds that fly over Hawk Ridge every autumn is really a snapshot of annual migration, impacted by weather and natural cycles, and not necessarily a population survey.

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 ...

Forty-five minutes north-east of Cambridge is a landscape I’ve come to love very much indeed. It’s where wet fen gives way to parched sand. It’s a land of twisted pine trees, burnt-out cars, ...