UPDATE: Mike Dupuy was acquitted in a federal court of the charges against him on Feb. 18, 2015. Mike Dupuy, a Middleburg master falconer and raptor breeder, will go into federal court Wednesday ...

"The Grey Ghost" (Accipiter gentilis). A brief history of the goshawk and falconry. Falconers have trained goshawks for more ...

MADISON — A federal judge fined a Wisconsin falconer and ordered him to forfeit his truck for poaching a raptor. According to prosecutors and court documents, 69-year-old James Kitzman of Oak Creek ...

Two falconers were sentenced March 2 for violations of the Lacey Act and other offenses for their roles in the illegal barter of a wild northern goshawk taken from a nest in Wisconsin. James Kitzman, ...

Falconry: the pursuit of wild game with a trained raptor; the sport of hunting with hawks. Humans have been chasing wild game with trained hawks for somewhere in the vicinity of 4,000 years now, ...

MIDDLEBURG — During the last few days, Mike Dupuy, of rural Middleburg, has received more than 100 phone calls and e-mails in response to the recent media attention about his lost goshawk, Hanna. The ...

As soon as Hashbrown launches from his arm, Tyler Sladen starts running. I follow, sprinting through the soft New Mexican sand, dodging cholla cactus and piles of trash, and trying not to lose sight ...

In 2007, writer and falconer Helen Macdonald lost her father suddenly and tragically to a heart attack. The two were close, and in order to find a way through her grief, she retreated to a childhood ...

I read a book about goshawks long before I saw one. A Northern Goshawk is the star of H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald. It is the riveting true story of the author training her newly acquired goshawk, ...

Stream now or tune in Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 7 p.m. & Sunday, March 14 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 —A Personal Story of Life, Loss And Falconry— After the unexpected death of her photojournalist father, ...