On Nov. 2, I trapped a juvenile red-tailed hawk and began the process of training. He will likely be returned to the wild after a year or two of guaranteed food, health benefits, and company housing, ...

Hawks offered women both real and symbolic means to express gender, power and status within a male-dominated world.

LOCK HAVEN, Pa. — Meet Thora, a one-year-old red-tailed female hawk. 15-year-old Kassidy Simcox trapped her back in September. The Lock Haven native says she discovered her love for animals at a young ...

Mixing education and fun is a winning recipe when it comes to our activities. There's nothing like learning and laughing simultaneously. One of the most memorable experiences of this kind happened ...

Falconry need not imply falcons. Instead, for their temperament, he’s chosen hawks — Harris’s hawks, specifically, native to the scrub brush of Arizona. Hawks are trained to come to meat displayed on ...

Adam Baz worked for years as a bird biologist before turning to falconry. Now, his company Hawk On Hand trains these majestic birds of prey for a number of different roles, including private, ...

Falconry — the ancient practice of hunting with birds of prey — offers participants a rare, up-close look at nature in action. Rather than training a bird as a pet, falconers work alongside predatory ...

Filmmaker Philippa Lowthorpe tells us how she brought Helen Macdonald’s nature memoir to life on screen, and explains why directing hawks is a complex art.