Pumpkin, a Harris’s hawk, glides through the wooded trails of Western Massachusetts, searching for his next meal. The small bird, with its brown and orangey plumage and weighing just a pound and a ...

Birds-I LOVE them! I don’t define myself as a birder, but I love to observe these glorious creatures and listen to their birdsong as they perch in trees, hop along the ground or soar overhead. All the ...

How Ocean City cleared the gulls from its boardwalk — with falcons and hawks. A hawk and a falcon in the mews where Erik Swanson keeps some of his five hawks and 12 falcons. (A Eurasian eagle-owl gets ...

Every time she lifts her eagle onto her gloved fist, the sensation brings both weight and wonder. Falconry, the ancient practice of training birds of prey to hunt in partnership with humans, is rare ...

“The Art of Falconry” explores the unique relationship between human and hawk. Humans have been hunting with birds for at least 5,000 years and in Idaho the practice has become increasingly popular ...