Stealth is the goshawk's greatest asset. Plummeting out of the air, the raptors fix their gaze on the oblivious victim below. Intrigued by the birds' attack tactics, Suzanne Amador Kane from Haverford ...

Humans have been using birds to hunt for thousands of years. And though the practice is known as falconry, falcons aren’t the only birds that have been trained for the hunt. Northern goshawks ...

The thermometer says 20 degrees above zero this morning, far beyond the 20 below yesterday. We had a light snowfall of about one-half inch falling before midnight. And when I step outside onto the ...

On a recent trip to northern Minnesota for the annual raptor migration, a good friend and licensed raptor bander captured a juvenile northern goshawk as part of his ongoing research project. I had a ...

Deep in the heart of Western Australia's north-west, a remarkable discovery has been made that captivates both ornithologists and nature enthusiasts alike: the red goshawk, one of Australia's rarest ...

Wearable cameras are perfect for capturing life's most radical moments, so it was inevitable that we would eventually strap one to a raptor's head to witness the thrill of airborne hunting. The bird's ...

PAXSON — A few days ago, I had the privilege of watching two goshawks gang up on a sharp-tail grouse. I live in some of the best goshawk habitat in the country and see these big raptors almost daily.

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 ...

The hunt for Australia’s rarest bird of prey, the red goshawk, has delivered an early Christmas gift.Just when it was feared that these superbly patterned raptors were disappearing from Australian ...

Liina and her father arrived at the forest hide before sunrise, laying a red squirrel road-kill nearby as bait. At dawn, an adult male goshawk landed at the carcass to feed. As it pulled off strips of ...