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, ...

I read a book about goshawks long before I saw one. A Northern Goshawk is the star of H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald. It is the riveting true story of the author training her newly acquired goshawk, ...

In her memoir “H is for Hawk,” author Helen Macdonald channeled her grief after her beloved father’s death into adopting and raising a goshawk, a fierce predatory bird. The book was adapted into a ...

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 ...

LANSING - For many falconers, there's nothing more majestic than a raptor in flight. Falconry, the sport of hunting wild prey with trained hawks and falcons, has been well established in the Middle ...

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, ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A federal judge has fined a Wisconsin falconer and ordered him to forfeit his pickup truck for poaching a raptor. According to prosecutors and court documents, James Kitzman of ...

Anyone who has ever seen a hawk or falcon effortlessly glide through the sky in pursuit of prey has admired its grace and instinct, but some people, known as falconers, actually hunt with these ...

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 ...