(CBS News) The goshawk is a bit of a bird equivalent to the "shark of the skies". In short, these fearsome birds of prey are well-known for their superior hunting skills. And while there has been ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 is a Sharp-shinned Hawk, a bird that nests in the northern half of our state, and throughout Canada. It's the smallest member of the Accipiter family -- Sharp-shinned, Cooper's, and Goshawk, the ...