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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This pulse-quickening story of a woman’s obsession with training a female goshawk makes H is for Hawk a modern classic in a nature-writing renaissance WHETHER it is a reaction to increased ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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, ...