Professor of biology and SAS board member Jack Kirkley speaks about his experiences studying goshawks in Montana.

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 ...

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, ...

Writer, naturalist and historian Helen Macdonald has a longtime love of falconry, but she'd never taken on a goshawk - the bird had a reputation as a vicious predator. But when her father died ...

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 ...

Adapted from Helen Macdonald’s award-winning memoir, H is for Hawk landed in cinemas at the end of January, featuring Claire Foy playing a grieving academic who trains a stubborn goshawk. But Claire ...

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 ...

Until the evening that the phone call came, I’d never understood why people say “Are you sitting down?” before they deliver bad news. But then I did. One minute I was standing with a phone to my ear, ...