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 ...

Movies about the relationship between a person and one of God’s creatures is becoming a virtual genre of its own. My Penguin Friend, Penguin Lessons, The Starling and Penguin Bloom are recent examples ...

When I meet Helen Macdonald to discuss her astonishing book H is for Hawk, she recounts an uncanny encounter on the banks of the Syr Darya River in central Asia. It was long before she’d even thought ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reeling from the death of her father, British author Helen Macdonald did something peculiar. She bought a goshawk, a massive, mysterious raptor with a reputation for being extremely difficult to train ...

Broad-winged hawks are the most common raptor at Hawk Ridge. Bald eagles are the biggest. Sharpshins come through by the hundreds early each fall. But northern goshawks, the fierce hunters of the ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This one is a true story based on a 2014 memoir by Helen Macdonald (played in the film by Foy), detailing her bonding with a ...