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 ...

Falconry: the pursuit of wild game with a trained raptor; the sport of hunting with hawks. Humans have been chasing wild game with trained hawks for somewhere in the vicinity of 4,000 years now, ...

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, ...

In 2007, writer and falconer Helen Macdonald lost her father suddenly and tragically to a heart attack. The two were close, and in order to find a way through her grief, she retreated to a childhood ...

On Jacks Mountain, where the trees showed hints of gold and orange, raptors took flight on an autumn afternoon, hitching a free ride on warm updrafts all along the ridge. Mike Dupuy, a master in the ...

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, ...

Agile and swift predators with unnerving red eyes, northern goshawks are legendary for their ferocity, beauty and amazing flight skills; in medieval Europe, goshawks were the most prized of all ...

Jefferson County Animal Control Officer Hubrecht poses with a goshawk recovered while on patrol. (Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office) JEFFERSON COUNTY – The work of an Animal Control officer can be ...

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 ...

The Boke of St. Albans, a 15th-century sportsman’s handbook, decreed that only a nobleman could hunt with a falcon, but a mere yeoman might settle for a goshawk. These days it is the very wildness and ...