英语词汇“goshawk”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

A goshawk flew overhead; a rock fell off the cliff and bounced past the blazing-star flowers. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

In the top of the spruce tree sat four young goshawks. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Dropping out of the sky by twos and ones came the goshawk, the kestrel, the red-tailed, and the sharp-shinned—the bird club. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

To them, any bird of prey must be harassed, but goshawks must be unmercifully bedeviled. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those days they used to hood everything they could, even the goshawk and the merlin, which are no longer hooded according to modem practice. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frightful was over the goshawk nest, and she was flying hard. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I can barely see her for the dense limbs, but I do see the parent goshawks. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The goshawks,” I say, breaking into a run. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The goshawks have located us and are circling above the trees. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two goshawks sat on perches not far from Duchess. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Through the needles, I see three baby goshawks peering over the side of the nest. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spruce tree is densely limbed and needled, but what Alice doesn’t know is that a goshawk can maneuver a maze. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gently rolling the little goshawk on her back, I stroke her breast to hypnotize her and calm her down. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The female goshawk drops down from her nest and, feet outspread, bombs Bando. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She starts telling him about the baby goshawk and how I won’t keep her after all the trouble she has gone to. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear the cry of a goshawk and look up. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three crows hear the alarm and fly out of the woods to harass the goshawks. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

His stem eye, as fierce as a goshawk’s, waited on his charge. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s sure terrible,” he mused, “to be a parent knowing that there are eagles and goshawks lurking everywhere in these mountains.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“We don’t have a peregrine, and you won’t keep the baby goshawk, so it’s a good thing I took Crystal with me.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was a lad I found an injured goshawk and nursed her back to health. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As she flew over the woods, she saw the young goshawks with their parents. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She took them, I now see, to handle a goshawk. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Talked to me for quite a while—said he was from Saudi Arabia. He thumbed through the goshawk book, too. Said the sheik he worked for had a goshawk. “ On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kay insisted on carrying the goshawk and flying her, when they went hawking together. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly she screams the alarm cry of the goshawk. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was returning the little goshawk to its nest. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Near the nest the male goshawk struck Alice’s backpack a powerful blow, nearly knocking her out of the tree. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The goshawk brushes me with her wing as I throw my legs over the escarpment and scramble down to our camp. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two goshawks, the lions of the woodland birds, suddenly dropped out of the trees and dove at Alice. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s time to take the little goshawk back.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Turner told her what happened to people who went near goshawk nests. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The female goshawk rose, dove, and rose again, her huge feet with their black talons poised to grab her flesh. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s the perfect place for you and me. I’m close to a goshawk’s nest, and you’re next to a mighty waterfall.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see the little goshawk cuddled against her siblings. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s about the training and manning of the spirited, fighting goshawk. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Concerned now, I take a running start, jump, grab the first limb of the spruce, and find myself kicking wildly to fend off- the female goshawk. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Miss Turner said there is a pair of goshawks that nest on the Helderberg Escarpment. I’d sure like to see them.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The goshawks followed screaming, until the two enemies disappeared under a clump of mountain laurel. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Taking off her pack she opens it and gently lifts a screaming, fighting baby goshawk. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got her for you. When I read your note saying Frightful had been confiscated, I cried. Then I remembered the goshawks Miss Turner had told us about. So I got you one.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thrilled by the privilege of just holding a baby goshawk, I step lightly to the edge of our hideout. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up a baby goshawk and tucked it into her backpack. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

White, who, obsessed with his own demons, tried to train a goshawk. Notable nonfiction of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

I was reminded of the goshawk, so thickly plumed, so powerful that it can bring down a deer, and yet it weighs only a few pounds. Helen Macdonald’s ‘Vesper Flights’ Sees Wonder — and Refuge — in the Natural World 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

Peregrine falcons, not goshawks, are the elite birds in British falconry books. Review: Helen Macdonald’s ‘H Is for Hawk,’ a Memoir on Grief and Falconry 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

Alison Light's "Common People" is about her English ancestors while Helen Macdonald's "H is for Hawk" is about a goshawk she trained to help her deal with the death of her father. Study of slavery makes shortlist for Samuel Johnson book prize 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

Then, the reader worries along with Macdonald every time the goshawk soars off the glove after prey. Helen Macdonald's 'H Is for Hawk' swoops into the wild 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Tori had hunted with dogs but never with birds, so David asked her to go out with him and his goshawk. In northeast England, learning about birds of prey and their high-flying ways

Ms. Macdonald’s beautiful and nearly feral book, about her attempts to train a goshawk, reminds us that excellent nature writing lays bare the intimacies of the human world as well as of the wild one. The Top Books of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

Best known for “The Once and Future King,” he was also a goshawk aficionado, who recorded his own inept and mortifying efforts at training a bird in “The Goshawk.” Best audiobooks of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Macdonald’s debut, “H Is for Hawk” — about grappling with the death of her beloved father by training a goshawk — was one of the Book Review’s 10 best books of 2015. 13 Books to Watch For in August 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

It is not just White who was a keen falconer; Hermann Göring was too, and indeed, Ms Macdonald writes of coming across his own goshawk, stuffed and mounted in an archive. Birdsong 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

A fellow trainer says to her early on: “If you want a well-behaved goshawk, you just have to do one thing. Give ’em the opportunity to kill things. Review: Helen Macdonald’s ‘H Is for Hawk,’ a Memoir on Grief and Falconry 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

“Living with a goshawk is like worshipping an iceberg,” she says. Birdsong 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

In the end, there is no cure for grief, just as a goshawk can never truly be tamed. Birdsong 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

In the wild, “Looking for goshawks is like looking for grace: it comes, but not often, and you don’t get to say when or how.” Birdsong 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

She notes, hunting, “that curious autocue parallax-bobbing” of the goshawk’s head. Review: Helen Macdonald’s ‘H Is for Hawk,’ a Memoir on Grief and Falconry 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

Macdonald, a scholar at Cambridge University, went to pieces after her father died, and in her mourning she did something unexpected: she purchased a goshawk. Top 10 Nonfiction Books 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

A breathtaking account of the raising and training of a young goshawk illuminates two complex natures: the author’s and the bird’s. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

Macdonald was already an experienced handler of birds, but goshawks are large and wild and fierce even by hawk standards, and she’d never tried to tame one before. Top 10 Nonfiction Books 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

Ms. Macdonald never before dared to attempt to work with a goshawk, a bird that is famously, she writes, “difficult to tame, sulky, fractious and foreign.” Review: Helen Macdonald’s ‘H Is for Hawk,’ a Memoir on Grief and Falconry 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

Her research into White, goshawks and her own life and feelings is made all the more compelling by its being brought to us in her own voice. Best audiobooks of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

In her grief, to escape into something, she begins to train one of nature’s most vicious predators, a goshawk. Review: Helen Macdonald’s ‘H Is for Hawk,’ a Memoir on Grief and Falconry 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

A veteran falconer, she chose this time to inhabit the world with a goshawk, "spooky, pale-eyed psychopaths that lived and killed in woodland thickets." Helen Macdonald's 'H Is for Hawk' swoops into the wild 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

White abruptly left his own teaching position and moved into a cottage at the edge of the school grounds where, he decided, he would deploy extremes of patience and calm to train a goshawk. Finding solace in the skies: Helen Macdonald’s memoir ‘H is for Hawk’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Helen MacDonald’s best-selling memoir, “H Is for Hawk,” bravely and brilliantly flies in the face of this risk, daring to treat the training of a goshawk as a magnet for meaning. Review: ‘Aloft’ Trains an Eagle Eye on Human Misery 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

An experienced falconer, Macdonald resolves to train a vicious predator, the goshawk, as a means to cope with the death of her father. These Are The Best Books of 2015 So Far 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

I do get a shock a few minutes in, but it’s only a goshawk, sweeping imperiously up the trail. Great Danes: the Denmark of Hamlet and Karen Blixen 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z

The book doesn’t shy away from the violence of a goshawk. Finding solace in the skies: Helen Macdonald’s memoir ‘H is for Hawk’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

“Looking for goshawks is like looking for grace,” Helen Macdonald writes in her extraordinary memoir H Is for Hawk. Review: The Angry Bird of H Is for Hawk 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Macdonald buys her goshawk from an Irish breeder on a quay in Scotland. Finding solace in the skies: Helen Macdonald’s memoir ‘H is for Hawk’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

A large raptor flushed in deep woods — perhaps a goshawk? Touring Maine’s Newest — and Largest — Parcel of Federal Land 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

Macdonald found her goshawk the old-fashioned way: she ordered her online, from a hawk breeder in Northern Ireland. Review: The Angry Bird of H Is for Hawk 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

If you’re lucky, you might spot a golden eagle, northern goshawk, peregrine falcon or a merlin. Eight great places to see the Mid-Atlantic’s migrating birds 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

He worked for a time with goshawks, he said, and “people didn’t really care.” Truck, plane, backpack: Inside the extreme effort to save Mexican wolves

But when Swanson released his goshawk — a raptor known for its fierceness — into the affected building, the birds didn’t budge. The Ancient Art of Falconry at the Jersey Shore 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

After the death of her father, Helen Macdonald finds inspiration from a goshawk, the namesake of her book “H Is for Hawk.” Where to find comfort in times of turmoil? The garden and the writers who love nature 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z

Also at risk are rare species including northern goshawk, western toads, northern red legged frogs and brown bats. B.C. government continues logging of old growth as 2-year protest in the woods drags on 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

Some bird species including goshawks that require high forest canopies and brown creepers, which scoot up large trees and eat bugs, will likely decrease, at least in the short term. Burned, beetle-ravaged Wyoming forest expected to flourish 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z

He traded the bird for a Finnish goshawk supplied by Michigan falconer Edward Taylor. Judge fines Wisconsin falconer for poaching northern goshawk 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

Jezebel, the goshawk, ended up contracting a host of bacterial and fungal infections, and Swanson also got sick himself. The Ancient Art of Falconry at the Jersey Shore 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

Selling or bartering northern goshawks is illegal under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Judge fines Michigan man for poaching Wisconsin raptor 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

To respect the life of the deer is to disrespect the life of the capercaillie, the crossbill, the goshawk, the wildcat, the red squirrel and the pine marten. I shot a deer – and I still believe it was the ethical thing to do | George Monbiot 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

For the smallest there is a risk of a swooping goshawk or, more rarely, a golden eagle. Wildlife Photographer of the Year: stories behind classic portraits 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z

Selling or bartering northern goshawks is illegal because they’re migratory birds protected by federal law. Judge fines Wisconsin falconer for poaching northern goshawk 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

We watched in beautiful clarity as a fox, and then a goshawk, and then a kookaburra fed on the slowly deflating body of the kangaroo. The Obsessive Search for the Tasmanian Tiger 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

Kitzman told his associates to keep it “hush-hush” that he was giving the female northern goshawk to Taylor. Judge fines Michigan man for poaching Wisconsin raptor 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

Nature The new episode “H Is for Hawk: A New Chapter,” is based on Helen Macdonald’s bestseller about her training of a goshawk, which helped her deal with her grief over her father’s death. Wednesday's TV highlights: 'Stan Against Evil' on IFC 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z

I wanted to be something as fierce and inhuman as a goshawk. What Animals Taught Me About Being Human 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

“It is a lifestyle,” said Kisak, 49, of Erie, who hunts with his six Finnish, Russian and Siberian goshawks. Raising, training birds of prey is a way of life 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z

How many of us have watched a possum “play possum” or a goshawk swoop after a blue jay? Feeling My Way Into Blindness 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Prosecutors said Taylor paid the fine immediately and turned the northern goshawk over to the U.S. Judge fines Michigan man for poaching Wisconsin raptor 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

Other birds making their way over the mountains include vultures, osprey and northern goshawks. Hundreds of raptors migrating through Big Belt Mountains 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

“When people talk about goshawks, they tend to describe them as feathered shotguns, killers,” says the author of the acclaimed memoir “H Is for Hawk.” What a natural-born predator named Mabel taught a writer about life and grief 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

More birds followed - kestrels, goshawks, red-tailed hawks, Harris’s hawks and falcons. Ancient sport of falconry now a modern hobby 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z

The agreement also ends the commercial grizzly bear hunt and protects habitat for the marbled murrelet, northern goshawk and mountain goat. British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest has been largely protected from logging in a landmark agreement between aboriginals, forest companies, environmental groups and the government 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

Her memoir, recounting how the death of her father prompted her to train a goshawk, went on to become a number one bestseller and to win last year's 2014 Costa Book of the Year Award. Samuel Johnson Prize shortlist announced - BBC News 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

The prize-winning memoir recounted how the death of Macdonald's father prompted her to follow a childhood dream of training a goshawk. Contentious Ted Hughes book makes Samuel Johnson Prize longlist - BBC News 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

Macdonald says that her falconry friends feared the book’s popularity would unleash a desire in the public to buy goshawks. What a natural-born predator named Mabel taught a writer about life and grief 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

The false alarms fool the currawong into thinking that its own predator, the brown goshawk, is nearby. Bird Cries Wolf to Deceive Predator 40 Times Its Size 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

"I just thought she really captured the sense of training a goshawk, it is so difficult." Rufus the hawk rules the Wimbledon skies 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

The researchers are using predators of different sizes—the owl, Cooper’s hawks, sharp-shinned hawks, goshawks—to elicit responses. Decoding the Cacophony of Birds’ Warning Calls 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

In Britain, goshawks were extinct by the late 19th century, persecuted by humans who saw them as vermin. How Berlin's urban goshawks helped me learn to love the city 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

But they all do, they just don’t like to talk about it, which tells you more about the culture of masculinity than it does about goshawks. What a natural-born predator named Mabel taught a writer about life and grief 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

As a result, the Forest Service is mostly leaving intact giant trees that are crucial owl and northern goshawk habitats and removing smaller ones instead. Feds expand efforts to fight wildfires by reshaping forests 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

A British woman, who is also a lifelong falconer, raises a fierce goshawk, rekindling the spirit of this Arthurian sport even as she reflects and quotes from T. H. White’s book “The Goshawk.” The Best-Selling Sports Books 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

A British woman who is also a lifelong falconer raises a fierce goshawk, rekindling the spirit of this Arthurian sport even as she reflects and quotes from T.H. The Best-Selling Sports Books 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

At the top of a church steeple in Kreuzberg, we see the very male goshawk that is pictured on the Wikipedia entry for the bird. How Berlin's urban goshawks helped me learn to love the city 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

Once it’s free to hunt, a goshawk does not bother to kill its dinner before dining; it just dives right in. What a natural-born predator named Mabel taught a writer about life and grief 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

The recommendations ranged from listing the northern goshawk as a state-threatened species, which would eliminate its use in state falconry, to listing the Atlantic sturgeon as endangered because of a federal listing in 2011. With fungal disease, state mulls ‘endangered’ tag for bats 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z

Helen Macdonald was in her third and final year as a research fellow at Cambridge, a prestigious postgraduate position, when her father died and, for eight hundred pounds sterling, she acquired a ten-week-old goshawk. How to Train Your Raptor 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

Once the prey starts moving, however, the goshawk may switch. Nature’s Fighter Jets With Flapping Wings 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

One lunchtime, crossing a busy square, I unexpectedly hear the yittering call of the goshawk directly above. How Berlin's urban goshawks helped me learn to love the city 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

My falconer friends were horrified — ‘You don’t play with goshawks!’ What a natural-born predator named Mabel taught a writer about life and grief 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

Men suspected to be trying to kill protected goshawks in Aberdeenshire are being sought after being captured by a special video camera. Footage shows bid to kill goshawks 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

Certain birds can perceive ultraviolet colors, the separate wing beats of a bee, and the earth’s magnetic field, and goshawks, Macdonald tells us, can “watch thermals of warm air rise, roil, and spill into clouds.” How to Train Your Raptor 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

She was interested in seeing which of several different pursuit strategies the goshawk would use. Nature’s Fighter Jets With Flapping Wings 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

I am particularly interested because I’d recently read the wonderful H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald, an account of the author’s lifelong passion for birds of prey and training a goshawk. How Berlin's urban goshawks helped me learn to love the city 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

This sudden motion foiled the goshawk not by simply outmaneuvering it, but by breaking the hawk’s visual lock on its target, the researchers suggest. Video: How to escape a hawk attack 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

Tomalin said the goshawk that Macdonald attempts to tame “is a large, frightening, dangerous, murderous creature,” and the memoir “is a book about an obsession. The author nearly goes mad.” Falconry memoir wins Samuel Johnson book prize 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

Unlike Macdonald, White had no idea what he was doing when he acquired his goshawk. How to Train Your Raptor 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

“A goshawk kills by grabbing the prey and kneading its talons into it,” Dr. Kane said. Nature’s Fighter Jets With Flapping Wings 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

Macdonald describes goshawks as a “dark grail” for birdwatchers, and how, in Britain, “you might spend a week in a forest full of gosses and not see one, just traces of their presence”. How Berlin's urban goshawks helped me learn to love the city 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

Davy Renney took this photograph and described the goshawk as "a rare unseen bird but amazing to see up close." National Tree Week 40th Anniversary 2013-11-22T07:43:41Z

The nearby forests were home to pigeons, parrots, small owls, and goshawks. Why 2 Birds in the Hand May Be Better Than a "Hobbit" Skull (in a Cave Deposit, at Least) 2013-06-24T22:45:03.030Z

Among those who know their birds of prey, the reputation of the goshawk is half Hamlet, half Lady Macbeth: mad, murderous, unpredictable, the kind of creature whose partners and intimates should brace themselves for trouble. How to Train Your Raptor 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

What surprised her, and what she reported Jan. 15 in The Journal of Experimental Biology, is that the goshawk, named Shinta, used both of these strategies. Nature’s Fighter Jets With Flapping Wings 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA—Often the benefactors of bread crumbs, pigeons don't need the aerial acrobatics of goshawks and other birds that hunt on the fly through forests. Aerial Acrobats: Pigeons Whoosh Through Tight Space 2013-01-08T21:05:00Z

We have in this country several trained goshawks, which are flown at rabbits; also sometimes at hares and pheasants. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z

There is a goshawk; and that hawk is for a yeoman. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z

After Merlyn finds the Wart in the woods, he catches the wayward goshawk, then accompanies the boy back home and becomes his tutor. How to Train Your Raptor 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

Shinta’s flights and other video show that a goshawk starts off with a classical pursuit when it sees its target. Nature’s Fighter Jets With Flapping Wings 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

"O well is me, my jolly goshawk, That ye can speak and flee; For ye can carry a love-letter To my true love from me." English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) 2011-11-18T03:00:30.847Z

The merlin, too, is occasionally trained: the present writer flew these beautiful little birds at larks for years; but gave them up in 1857, and confined himself entirely to peregrines and goshawks. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z

There’s another worrying trend, as well, which Marlowe Hood notes: Birds — including passerines, goshawks and gulls — and mammals such as soay sheep, red dear and polar bears, have also trended towards less bulk. Climate Change is Shrinking Many Plant and Animal Species 2011-10-17T05:20:59Z

Terence Hanbury White also got a goshawk to fill the void left by a beloved parent, but in a different sense: he never had one. How to Train Your Raptor 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

For such a Crow vanquishes without much trouble eagles, goshawks, shrikes, gerfalcons, sparrow-hawks. Flemish Legends 2011-10-10T02:00:21.467Z

"But well is me, my jolly goshawk, That ye can speak and flee; Come shew to me any love tokens That you have brought to me." English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) 2011-11-18T03:00:30.847Z

While she gazed in surprise at his sudden appearance, she beheld a transformation, and in less time than it takes to tell, the goshawk had become a gallant knight, with raven locks and flashing eyes. The Fairies and the Christmas Child 2011-09-29T02:00:12.583Z

He took with him," says Polo, "fully 10,000 falconers and some 500 gerfalcons, besides peregrines, sakers and other hawks in great numbers, including goshawks, to fly at the waterfowl. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z

His new life would be with and for the goshawk alone. How to Train Your Raptor 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

It is never safe to fly the goshawk at a heron of any description. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z

The team captured the flight of Ellie, the trained goshawk, as she manoeuvred through a specially designed flight tunnel. In flight movie 2011-04-28T13:07:31Z

From this place of vantage she beheld, shortly after, the arrival of the goshawk, and his transformation into a handsome and tender knight. The Fairies and the Christmas Child 2011-09-29T02:00:12.583Z

If they be goshawks indeed, and in goodly condition, I doubt not that he will gladly buy them. The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR 2011-04-25T02:00:10.333Z

It is a goshawk, a huge bird with golden eyes, like something out of a legend. How to Train Your Raptor 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

Only very strong females are able to take hares; rabbits are easy quarry for any female goshawk, and a little too strong for the male. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z

The team varied the size and shape of the entry aperture to allow them to film the accurate manoeuvres goshawks use to navigate dense woodland. In flight movie 2011-04-28T13:07:31Z

On leaving his love, the goshawk flew past these safely, but when he returned at dusk the next evening, he overlooked them in his eagerness, and was sorely hurt. The Fairies and the Christmas Child 2011-09-29T02:00:12.583Z

We shall find game for goshawks, kestrels, jer-falcons, merlins, and every sort. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z

Eventually, he will grant the request, and the goshawk that the Wart followed into the woods will try to kill him. How to Train Your Raptor 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

A good female goshawk may kill from 10 to 15 rabbits in a day, or more. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z

Female goshawks are significantly larger than their male counterparts with a wingspan of up to 130 cm compared to an average of 105 cm in the male. In flight movie 2011-04-28T13:07:31Z

Four species - the osprey, white-tailed eagle, goshawk and marsh harrier - were virtually extinct in Britain during most of the 20th Century. Are birds of prey back? 2011-03-04T10:35:24Z

Earl Warren, by giving Simon de Pierpont a goshawk, obtained leave to hunt the buck, doe, hart, hind, hare, fox, goat, cat, or any other wild beast, in certain lands of Simon's. Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured 2011-03-03T03:00:48.597Z

By the time of her father’s death, Macdonald, an experienced falconer, had trained kestrels and merlins and peregrines, but she had never cared to train a goshawk. How to Train Your Raptor 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

From various causes it is impossible, or nearly so, to have goshawks in England in the perfection to which 146 they are brought in the East. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z

Two tawny owls, a buzzard, goshawk and barn owl - which all need a special certificate to be sold legally - were found at a house in Burnley. Officers seize illegal taxidermy 2011-02-22T09:08:05Z

Some farmers are worried by the spread of reintroduced eagles Several species - notably the hen harrier, golden eagle and goshawk - are still at risk. Are birds of prey back? 2011-03-04T10:35:24Z

But the goshawks, the rats, the owls and the torrential rains took their toll, and only one of those eight chicks survived. Basics: Nourishing Nests Lift These Birds to a Higher Perch 2011-01-31T19:28:48Z

She also notes that the bird’s volatile reputation is partly due to neurology: the pathways between the goshawk’s sensory neurons and its motor neurons all but bypass the brain. How to Train Your Raptor 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

The hawks used in England are the three great northern falcons, viz. the Greenland, Iceland and Norway falcons, the peregrine falcon, the hobby, the merlin, the goshawk and the sparrow-hawk. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z

There are goshawks, falcons, gerfalcons, and all fowls of prey that are in Spain. A Narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557 2011-01-20T03:00:07.377Z

Since leaving Bige that morning I had seen no big game, but had shot a goshawk. Camps and Trails 2010-12-20T17:12:16.133Z

Of the former there are two kinds, the generous, as the peregrine falcon, lanner, goshawk, &c.; and the ignoble, as the buzzard, kite, &c. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History

White was thirty when he quit teaching, rented a cabin far from town, and got a goshawk. How to Train Your Raptor 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

Of the foregoing the easiest to keep, most efficient in the field, and most suitable for general use are the peregrine falcon and the goshawk. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z

I have brought three falcons and two goshawks for the abbess' perch as my father's rent.... The Abbatial Crosier or Bonaik and Septimine. A Tale of a Medieval Abbess

I suspect that our feeling of enmity toward the goshawk is not entirely due to sympathy for the defenseless partridge. Camps and Trails 2010-12-20T17:12:16.133Z

A great Arctic goshawk, driven by some unknown whim to follow the edge of winter southward, was sailing on wide wings through the high, familiar cold. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life

The male of the goshawk was so called on account of its tractable disposition, and the facility with which it was tamed. Folk-lore of Shakespeare

Tiercel.—The male of various falcons, particularly of the peregrine, also tarcell, tassell or tercel; the term is also applied to the male of the goshawk. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z

And over all a pale cobalt sky, and a snow-covered hill, where, in the woods, crows sat cawing on the taller trees, and a slow goshawk sailed. The Crimson Tide A Novel

The goshawk destroys many song birds, but his particular object in life is to kill partridges. Camps and Trails 2010-12-20T17:12:16.133Z

When the knight wishes to send a message, he speaks in the ear of his 'gay goshawk that can baith speak and flee.' The Balladists Famous Scots Series

This was that bloodthirsty and tireless slayer, the goshawk, or great grey henhawk. The Backwoodsmen

Where rabbits sit out on grass or in turnip fields, a goshawk may be used with success, even in a wood when the holes are not too near. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z

Audubon relates a curious instance of sagacity in a goshawk, which he himself witnessed. Harper's Young People, February 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly

What should he meet but a gay little goshawk, Flying up from the earth so far. The Nursery, April 1878, Vol. XXIII. No. 4 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers

No tercelet for her, but the fiercest goshawk that e’er seized quarry. In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls

The goshawk, know, can soar on high, Yet low he nests his brood. Jewish Literature and Other Essays

The management of sparrow-hawks is much the same as that of goshawks, but they are far more delicate than the latter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z

Henry VIII. presented the Marquis of Dessarages, a Spanish grandee, with two goshawks and four Irish greyhounds.' Anecdotes of Dogs

Suddenly the birds, which were warbling on the banks of the stream, all flew away; a goshawk was hovering above us in the sky. Adventures of a Young Naturalist

He once offered the reversion in fee of an Irish leasehold for a goshawk. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography

A goshawk is a goose hawk, so called from its preying on poultry. The Romance of Words (4th ed.)

The writer has known peregrines, shaheens and goshawks to reach ages between 15 and 20 years. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z

The crested goshawk may be described in brief as a large shikra with a crest. Birds of the Indian Hills

Lord William looked up and stroked the glossy plumage of his gay goshawk. Stories from the Ballads Told to the Children

The goshawk and chicken-hawk, in the amount of damage done, far exceed all other birds of prey. Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation

It is perhaps needless to remark that no goshawk sings sweetly, much less talks. Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series

But, on the other hand, Hubert's goshawk Margaret, a fiery little creature, named inappropriately enough after his tranquil aunt, as a rule did better than Anthony's Isabel, and brought the scores level again. By What Authority?

Then Count Richard took one of his brother's goshawks and would not give it up. The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay

Then Lord William sat down and wrote a letter to his love, and fastened it firm under the pinion of his gay goshawk. Stories from the Ballads Told to the Children

Their goshawks again are as black as crows, a good deal bigger than ours, and very swift and sure. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2

The hawks which have been trained for the field, are the slight falcon and the goshawk, which are the species generally used in falconry. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 339, November 8, 1828

And not content with the denial, he supplemented it by a laugh as he added, "When birds go to the greenwood, they must take the chance of meeting the goshawk." Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII

They swoop upon us like two goshawks on a heron. The White Company

The sharp eyes of the goshawk glanced at each beautiful maiden, and quick was he to see Lord William's love, for sweet was she as the flowers that spring in May. Stories from the Ballads Told to the Children

For example they have bats,—I mean those birds that fly by night and have no feathers of any kind; well, their birds of this kind are as big as a goshawk! The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2

Some, as the goshawk, were formerly trained like falcons. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section F, G and H

I met a goshawk on my way home, and the bird informed me that he had lately been to Oz to capture and devour some of the young chickens. The Emerald City of Oz

I could not anywhere come by a goshawk nor tassel of falcon. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1

When another day dawned the gay goshawk left the birch-tree and alighted on the gate, a little nearer to the lattice window where sat the beautiful lady to whom he had been sent. Stories from the Ballads Told to the Children

"Well then, mother dear, turn the twenty-four dancers and pipers into twenty-four grey herons, and let my seven sons become seven white swans, and let me be a goshawk and their leader." English Fairy Tales

It was not in a fit state to be preserved, but he described it to me, and I have no doubt that it was a goshawk. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs

The raven vanished as a pet, because like the goshawk, kite, and buzzard, he was extirpated in the interests of the game-preserver and hen-wife. Birds in Town and Village

In the whistling swoop of the grey goshawk there is a note of ominous blood-thirstiness, silent though the destroyer has sat awaiting the moment for swift and decisive action. Tropic Days

Wide she opened her lattice window and, leaning out, she hearkened to the song of the gay goshawk. Stories from the Ballads Told to the Children

Suddenly Coo-my-dove changed into a goshawk and around him flew twenty-four grey herons and above them flew seven cygnets. English Fairy Tales

For it is something to have a rook, although he is not a great bird compared with the great ones lost—bustard and kite and raven and goshawk, and many others. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs

We saw also a flock of paroquets pursued by little goshawks without crests. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2

Cardan notices that "the best and biggest goshawks come from Armenia," a term often including Georgia and Caucasus. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1

A little nearer flew the gay goshawk, and first his song was merry as a summer morn, and then it was sad as an autumn eve. Stories from the Ballads Told to the Children

The swanlets took charge of the bride while the goshawk dashed down and tied the bridegroom to a tree. English Fairy Tales

This country likewise produces large goshawks, as black as ravens, which are excellent for sport. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

The goshawk is a royal fowl, and is armed more with boldness than with claws, and as much as kind taketh from her in quantity of body, it rewardeth her with boldness of heart. Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus

It is now little used in that region, the Terlán or goshawk being most valued, but a few are caught and sent for sale to the Arabs of Oman. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1

She put out her hand and stroked the pinions of the gay goshawk, and lo! there dropped from beneath his wing Lord William's letter. Stories from the Ballads Told to the Children

A word from Prince Florentine, the goshawk, and they all rose into the air, herons beneath, cygnets above, and goshawk circling above all. English Fairy Tales

The American goshawk is the next bird of this family that I will mention, and I am very glad to say that he is only a winter resident. Nature's Serial Story

There perched no moulting goshawk, and there no falcon swung. The Lay of the Cid

You see, he hadn't forgotten the fright he had had, nor how the goshawk's claws had hurt his back. Sleepy-Time Tales: the Tale of Fatty Coon

And as a token of my love I send you by your gay goshawk a ring from off my finger, a wreath from off my yellow hair. Stories from the Ballads Told to the Children

A horde of them never seeks to scare him away with angry scolding and feeble assaults, as it does the cruel falcon and the daring goshawk. Confessions of a Beachcomber

Like an arrow a goshawk darted upon them, while they, in their fright, huddled together. Nature's Serial Story

Birds of prey, winging from the sea, rising from marshlands, swooping from eyries, hover screaming, gannets, cormorants, vultures, goshawks, climbing woodcocks, peregrines, merlins, blackgrouse, sea eagles, gulls, albatrosses, barnacle geese. Ulysses

And after he had almost forgotten about the fright the goshawk had given him in the tall hemlock he began to roam through the tree-tops every night in search of squirrels and sleeping birds. Sleepy-Time Tales: the Tale of Fatty Coon

And the gay goshawk sang their wedding song. Stories from the Ballads Told to the Children

Continually birds of various sorts were flushed, and each was pursued by the appropriate hawk, the snipe by the tercel, the partridge by the goshawk, even the lark by the little merlin. Sir Nigel

It rarely seizes its prey while flying, like the goshawk, but with its keen vision will inspect the immediate vicinity from the branch of a tree, and thence dart upon it. Nature's Serial Story

TN: In Mediaeval falconry the goshawk was not regarded as a fit bird for a knight. The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems

And a goshawk is the fiercest of all the hawks there are. Sleepy-Time Tales: the Tale of Fatty Coon

All alone he sat save for his favourite bird, the gay goshawk. Stories from the Ballads Told to the Children

Even the goshawk hesitates before taking a swoop at him, not knowing quite whether the gaudy creature is dangerous or only uncanny. Secret of the Woods

The goshawk will take a mallard with perfect ease, neatly and deliberately strip off the feathers, and then, like an epicure, eat the breast only. Nature's Serial Story

He was clad in a riding-gown of black velvet that hung a little lower than the knee, trimmed with otter fur and embroidered with silver goshawks—the crest of the family of Beaumont. Men of Iron

There shall you sit, my gay goshawk, and you shall sing to her as she goes to holy church. Stories from the Ballads Told to the Children

The goshawk blinked and peered more close into the tired face of his master. Stories from the Ballads Told to the Children

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例句	goshawk A goshawk flew overhead; a rock fell off the cliff and bounced past the blazing-star flowers. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z In the top of the spruce tree sat four young goshawks. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Dropping out of the sky by twos and ones came the goshawk, the kestrel, the red-tailed, and the sharp-shinned—the bird club. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z To them, any bird of prey must be harassed, but goshawks must be unmercifully bedeviled. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In those days they used to hood everything they could, even the goshawk and the merlin, which are no longer hooded according to modem practice. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Frightful was over the goshawk nest, and she was flying hard. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I can barely see her for the dense limbs, but I do see the parent goshawks. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “The goshawks,” I say, breaking into a run. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The goshawks have located us and are circling above the trees. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Two goshawks sat on perches not far from Duchess. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Through the needles, I see three baby goshawks peering over the side of the nest. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The spruce tree is densely limbed and needled, but what Alice doesn’t know is that a goshawk can maneuver a maze. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Gently rolling the little goshawk on her back, I stroke her breast to hypnotize her and calm her down. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The female goshawk drops down from her nest and, feet outspread, bombs Bando. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She starts telling him about the baby goshawk and how I won’t keep her after all the trouble she has gone to. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I hear the cry of a goshawk and look up. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Three crows hear the alarm and fly out of the woods to harass the goshawks. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z His stem eye, as fierce as a goshawk’s, waited on his charge. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s sure terrible,” he mused, “to be a parent knowing that there are eagles and goshawks lurking everywhere in these mountains.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “We don’t have a peregrine, and you won’t keep the baby goshawk, so it’s a good thing I took Crystal with me.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When I was a lad I found an injured goshawk and nursed her back to health. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z As she flew over the woods, she saw the young goshawks with their parents. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She took them, I now see, to handle a goshawk. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Talked to me for quite a while—said he was from Saudi Arabia. He thumbed through the goshawk book, too. Said the sheik he worked for had a goshawk. “ On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Kay insisted on carrying the goshawk and flying her, when they went hawking together. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly she screams the alarm cry of the goshawk. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He was returning the little goshawk to its nest. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Near the nest the male goshawk struck Alice’s backpack a powerful blow, nearly knocking her out of the tree. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The goshawk brushes me with her wing as I throw my legs over the escarpment and scramble down to our camp. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Two goshawks, the lions of the woodland birds, suddenly dropped out of the trees and dove at Alice. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “It’s time to take the little goshawk back.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Turner told her what happened to people who went near goshawk nests. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The female goshawk rose, dove, and rose again, her huge feet with their black talons poised to grab her flesh. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “It’s the perfect place for you and me. I’m close to a goshawk’s nest, and you’re next to a mighty waterfall.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I see the little goshawk cuddled against her siblings. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s about the training and manning of the spirited, fighting goshawk. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Concerned now, I take a running start, jump, grab the first limb of the spruce, and find myself kicking wildly to fend off- the female goshawk. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Miss Turner said there is a pair of goshawks that nest on the Helderberg Escarpment. I’d sure like to see them.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The goshawks followed screaming, until the two enemies disappeared under a clump of mountain laurel. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Taking off her pack she opens it and gently lifts a screaming, fighting baby goshawk. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I got her for you. When I read your note saying Frightful had been confiscated, I cried. Then I remembered the goshawks Miss Turner had told us about. So I got you one.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Thrilled by the privilege of just holding a baby goshawk, I step lightly to the edge of our hideout. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She picked up a baby goshawk and tucked it into her backpack. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z White, who, obsessed with his own demons, tried to train a goshawk. Notable nonfiction of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z I was reminded of the goshawk, so thickly plumed, so powerful that it can bring down a deer, and yet it weighs only a few pounds. Helen Macdonald’s ‘Vesper Flights’ Sees Wonder — and Refuge — in the Natural World 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Peregrine falcons, not goshawks, are the elite birds in British falconry books. Review: Helen Macdonald’s ‘H Is for Hawk,’ a Memoir on Grief and Falconry 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Alison Light's "Common People" is about her English ancestors while Helen Macdonald's "H is for Hawk" is about a goshawk she trained to help her deal with the death of her father. Study of slavery makes shortlist for Samuel Johnson book prize 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Then, the reader worries along with Macdonald every time the goshawk soars off the glove after prey. Helen Macdonald's 'H Is for Hawk' swoops into the wild 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Tori had hunted with dogs but never with birds, so David asked her to go out with him and his goshawk. In northeast England, learning about birds of prey and their high-flying ways Ms. Macdonald’s beautiful and nearly feral book, about her attempts to train a goshawk, reminds us that excellent nature writing lays bare the intimacies of the human world as well as of the wild one. The Top Books of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Best known for “The Once and Future King,” he was also a goshawk aficionado, who recorded his own inept and mortifying efforts at training a bird in “The Goshawk.” Best audiobooks of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Macdonald’s debut, “H Is for Hawk” — about grappling with the death of her beloved father by training a goshawk — was one of the Book Review’s 10 best books of 2015. 13 Books to Watch For in August 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z It is not just White who was a keen falconer; Hermann Göring was too, and indeed, Ms Macdonald writes of coming across his own goshawk, stuffed and mounted in an archive. Birdsong 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z A fellow trainer says to her early on: “If you want a well-behaved goshawk, you just have to do one thing. Give ’em the opportunity to kill things. Review: Helen Macdonald’s ‘H Is for Hawk,’ a Memoir on Grief and Falconry 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z “Living with a goshawk is like worshipping an iceberg,” she says. Birdsong 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z In the end, there is no cure for grief, just as a goshawk can never truly be tamed. Birdsong 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z In the wild, “Looking for goshawks is like looking for grace: it comes, but not often, and you don’t get to say when or how.” Birdsong 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z She notes, hunting, “that curious autocue parallax-bobbing” of the goshawk’s head. Review: Helen Macdonald’s ‘H Is for Hawk,’ a Memoir on Grief and Falconry 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Macdonald, a scholar at Cambridge University, went to pieces after her father died, and in her mourning she did something unexpected: she purchased a goshawk. Top 10 Nonfiction Books 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z A breathtaking account of the raising and training of a young goshawk illuminates two complex natures: the author’s and the bird’s. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z Macdonald was already an experienced handler of birds, but goshawks are large and wild and fierce even by hawk standards, and she’d never tried to tame one before. Top 10 Nonfiction Books 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Ms. Macdonald never before dared to attempt to work with a goshawk, a bird that is famously, she writes, “difficult to tame, sulky, fractious and foreign.” Review: Helen Macdonald’s ‘H Is for Hawk,’ a Memoir on Grief and Falconry 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Her research into White, goshawks and her own life and feelings is made all the more compelling by its being brought to us in her own voice. Best audiobooks of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z In her grief, to escape into something, she begins to train one of nature’s most vicious predators, a goshawk. Review: Helen Macdonald’s ‘H Is for Hawk,’ a Memoir on Grief and Falconry 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z A veteran falconer, she chose this time to inhabit the world with a goshawk, "spooky, pale-eyed psychopaths that lived and killed in woodland thickets." Helen Macdonald's 'H Is for Hawk' swoops into the wild 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z White abruptly left his own teaching position and moved into a cottage at the edge of the school grounds where, he decided, he would deploy extremes of patience and calm to train a goshawk. Finding solace in the skies: Helen Macdonald’s memoir ‘H is for Hawk’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Helen MacDonald’s best-selling memoir, “H Is for Hawk,” bravely and brilliantly flies in the face of this risk, daring to treat the training of a goshawk as a magnet for meaning. Review: ‘Aloft’ Trains an Eagle Eye on Human Misery 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z An experienced falconer, Macdonald resolves to train a vicious predator, the goshawk, as a means to cope with the death of her father. These Are The Best Books of 2015 So Far 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z I do get a shock a few minutes in, but it’s only a goshawk, sweeping imperiously up the trail. Great Danes: the Denmark of Hamlet and Karen Blixen 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z The book doesn’t shy away from the violence of a goshawk. Finding solace in the skies: Helen Macdonald’s memoir ‘H is for Hawk’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z “Looking for goshawks is like looking for grace,” Helen Macdonald writes in her extraordinary memoir H Is for Hawk. Review: The Angry Bird of H Is for Hawk 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Macdonald buys her goshawk from an Irish breeder on a quay in Scotland. Finding solace in the skies: Helen Macdonald’s memoir ‘H is for Hawk’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z A large raptor flushed in deep woods — perhaps a goshawk? Touring Maine’s Newest — and Largest — Parcel of Federal Land 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Macdonald found her goshawk the old-fashioned way: she ordered her online, from a hawk breeder in Northern Ireland. Review: The Angry Bird of H Is for Hawk 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z If you’re lucky, you might spot a golden eagle, northern goshawk, peregrine falcon or a merlin. Eight great places to see the Mid-Atlantic’s migrating birds 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z He worked for a time with goshawks, he said, and “people didn’t really care.” Truck, plane, backpack: Inside the extreme effort to save Mexican wolves But when Swanson released his goshawk — a raptor known for its fierceness — into the affected building, the birds didn’t budge. The Ancient Art of Falconry at the Jersey Shore 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z After the death of her father, Helen Macdonald finds inspiration from a goshawk, the namesake of her book “H Is for Hawk.” Where to find comfort in times of turmoil? The garden and the writers who love nature 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z Also at risk are rare species including northern goshawk, western toads, northern red legged frogs and brown bats. B.C. government continues logging of old growth as 2-year protest in the woods drags on 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Some bird species including goshawks that require high forest canopies and brown creepers, which scoot up large trees and eat bugs, will likely decrease, at least in the short term. Burned, beetle-ravaged Wyoming forest expected to flourish 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z He traded the bird for a Finnish goshawk supplied by Michigan falconer Edward Taylor. Judge fines Wisconsin falconer for poaching northern goshawk 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z Jezebel, the goshawk, ended up contracting a host of bacterial and fungal infections, and Swanson also got sick himself. The Ancient Art of Falconry at the Jersey Shore 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Selling or bartering northern goshawks is illegal under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Judge fines Michigan man for poaching Wisconsin raptor 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z To respect the life of the deer is to disrespect the life of the capercaillie, the crossbill, the goshawk, the wildcat, the red squirrel and the pine marten. I shot a deer – and I still believe it was the ethical thing to do \| George Monbiot 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z For the smallest there is a risk of a swooping goshawk or, more rarely, a golden eagle. Wildlife Photographer of the Year: stories behind classic portraits 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z Selling or bartering northern goshawks is illegal because they’re migratory birds protected by federal law. Judge fines Wisconsin falconer for poaching northern goshawk 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z We watched in beautiful clarity as a fox, and then a goshawk, and then a kookaburra fed on the slowly deflating body of the kangaroo. The Obsessive Search for the Tasmanian Tiger 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Kitzman told his associates to keep it “hush-hush” that he was giving the female northern goshawk to Taylor. Judge fines Michigan man for poaching Wisconsin raptor 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Nature The new episode “H Is for Hawk: A New Chapter,” is based on Helen Macdonald’s bestseller about her training of a goshawk, which helped her deal with her grief over her father’s death. Wednesday's TV highlights: 'Stan Against Evil' on IFC 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z I wanted to be something as fierce and inhuman as a goshawk. What Animals Taught Me About Being Human 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z “It is a lifestyle,” said Kisak, 49, of Erie, who hunts with his six Finnish, Russian and Siberian goshawks. Raising, training birds of prey is a way of life 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z How many of us have watched a possum “play possum” or a goshawk swoop after a blue jay? Feeling My Way Into Blindness 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Prosecutors said Taylor paid the fine immediately and turned the northern goshawk over to the U.S. Judge fines Michigan man for poaching Wisconsin raptor 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Other birds making their way over the mountains include vultures, osprey and northern goshawks. Hundreds of raptors migrating through Big Belt Mountains 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z “When people talk about goshawks, they tend to describe them as feathered shotguns, killers,” says the author of the acclaimed memoir “H Is for Hawk.” What a natural-born predator named Mabel taught a writer about life and grief 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z More birds followed - kestrels, goshawks, red-tailed hawks, Harris’s hawks and falcons. Ancient sport of falconry now a modern hobby 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z The agreement also ends the commercial grizzly bear hunt and protects habitat for the marbled murrelet, northern goshawk and mountain goat. British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest has been largely protected from logging in a landmark agreement between aboriginals, forest companies, environmental groups and the government 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Her memoir, recounting how the death of her father prompted her to train a goshawk, went on to become a number one bestseller and to win last year's 2014 Costa Book of the Year Award. Samuel Johnson Prize shortlist announced - BBC News 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z The prize-winning memoir recounted how the death of Macdonald's father prompted her to follow a childhood dream of training a goshawk. Contentious Ted Hughes book makes Samuel Johnson Prize longlist - BBC News 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Macdonald says that her falconry friends feared the book’s popularity would unleash a desire in the public to buy goshawks. What a natural-born predator named Mabel taught a writer about life and grief 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z The false alarms fool the currawong into thinking that its own predator, the brown goshawk, is nearby. Bird Cries Wolf to Deceive Predator 40 Times Its Size 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z "I just thought she really captured the sense of training a goshawk, it is so difficult." Rufus the hawk rules the Wimbledon skies 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z The researchers are using predators of different sizes—the owl, Cooper’s hawks, sharp-shinned hawks, goshawks—to elicit responses. Decoding the Cacophony of Birds’ Warning Calls 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z In Britain, goshawks were extinct by the late 19th century, persecuted by humans who saw them as vermin. How Berlin's urban goshawks helped me learn to love the city 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z But they all do, they just don’t like to talk about it, which tells you more about the culture of masculinity than it does about goshawks. What a natural-born predator named Mabel taught a writer about life and grief 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z As a result, the Forest Service is mostly leaving intact giant trees that are crucial owl and northern goshawk habitats and removing smaller ones instead. Feds expand efforts to fight wildfires by reshaping forests 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z A British woman, who is also a lifelong falconer, raises a fierce goshawk, rekindling the spirit of this Arthurian sport even as she reflects and quotes from T. H. White’s book “The Goshawk.” The Best-Selling Sports Books 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z A British woman who is also a lifelong falconer raises a fierce goshawk, rekindling the spirit of this Arthurian sport even as she reflects and quotes from T.H. The Best-Selling Sports Books 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z At the top of a church steeple in Kreuzberg, we see the very male goshawk that is pictured on the Wikipedia entry for the bird. How Berlin's urban goshawks helped me learn to love the city 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Once it’s free to hunt, a goshawk does not bother to kill its dinner before dining; it just dives right in. What a natural-born predator named Mabel taught a writer about life and grief 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z The recommendations ranged from listing the northern goshawk as a state-threatened species, which would eliminate its use in state falconry, to listing the Atlantic sturgeon as endangered because of a federal listing in 2011. With fungal disease, state mulls ‘endangered’ tag for bats 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z Helen Macdonald was in her third and final year as a research fellow at Cambridge, a prestigious postgraduate position, when her father died and, for eight hundred pounds sterling, she acquired a ten-week-old goshawk. How to Train Your Raptor 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Once the prey starts moving, however, the goshawk may switch. Nature’s Fighter Jets With Flapping Wings 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z One lunchtime, crossing a busy square, I unexpectedly hear the yittering call of the goshawk directly above. How Berlin's urban goshawks helped me learn to love the city 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z My falconer friends were horrified — ‘You don’t play with goshawks!’ What a natural-born predator named Mabel taught a writer about life and grief 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Men suspected to be trying to kill protected goshawks in Aberdeenshire are being sought after being captured by a special video camera. Footage shows bid to kill goshawks 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Certain birds can perceive ultraviolet colors, the separate wing beats of a bee, and the earth’s magnetic field, and goshawks, Macdonald tells us, can “watch thermals of warm air rise, roil, and spill into clouds.” How to Train Your Raptor 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z She was interested in seeing which of several different pursuit strategies the goshawk would use. Nature’s Fighter Jets With Flapping Wings 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z I am particularly interested because I’d recently read the wonderful H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald, an account of the author’s lifelong passion for birds of prey and training a goshawk. How Berlin's urban goshawks helped me learn to love the city 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z This sudden motion foiled the goshawk not by simply outmaneuvering it, but by breaking the hawk’s visual lock on its target, the researchers suggest. Video: How to escape a hawk attack 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Tomalin said the goshawk that Macdonald attempts to tame “is a large, frightening, dangerous, murderous creature,” and the memoir “is a book about an obsession. The author nearly goes mad.” Falconry memoir wins Samuel Johnson book prize 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Unlike Macdonald, White had no idea what he was doing when he acquired his goshawk. How to Train Your Raptor 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z “A goshawk kills by grabbing the prey and kneading its talons into it,” Dr. Kane said. Nature’s Fighter Jets With Flapping Wings 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Macdonald describes goshawks as a “dark grail” for birdwatchers, and how, in Britain, “you might spend a week in a forest full of gosses and not see one, just traces of their presence”. How Berlin's urban goshawks helped me learn to love the city 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Davy Renney took this photograph and described the goshawk as "a rare unseen bird but amazing to see up close." National Tree Week 40th Anniversary 2013-11-22T07:43:41Z The nearby forests were home to pigeons, parrots, small owls, and goshawks. Why 2 Birds in the Hand May Be Better Than a "Hobbit" Skull (in a Cave Deposit, at Least) 2013-06-24T22:45:03.030Z Among those who know their birds of prey, the reputation of the goshawk is half Hamlet, half Lady Macbeth: mad, murderous, unpredictable, the kind of creature whose partners and intimates should brace themselves for trouble. How to Train Your Raptor 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z What surprised her, and what she reported Jan. 15 in The Journal of Experimental Biology, is that the goshawk, named Shinta, used both of these strategies. Nature’s Fighter Jets With Flapping Wings 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA—Often the benefactors of bread crumbs, pigeons don't need the aerial acrobatics of goshawks and other birds that hunt on the fly through forests. Aerial Acrobats: Pigeons Whoosh Through Tight Space 2013-01-08T21:05:00Z We have in this country several trained goshawks, which are flown at rabbits; also sometimes at hares and pheasants. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z There is a goshawk; and that hawk is for a yeoman. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z After Merlyn finds the Wart in the woods, he catches the wayward goshawk, then accompanies the boy back home and becomes his tutor. How to Train Your Raptor 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Shinta’s flights and other video show that a goshawk starts off with a classical pursuit when it sees its target. Nature’s Fighter Jets With Flapping Wings 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z "O well is me, my jolly goshawk, That ye can speak and flee; For ye can carry a love-letter To my true love from me." English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) 2011-11-18T03:00:30.847Z The merlin, too, is occasionally trained: the present writer flew these beautiful little birds at larks for years; but gave them up in 1857, and confined himself entirely to peregrines and goshawks. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z There’s another worrying trend, as well, which Marlowe Hood notes: Birds — including passerines, goshawks and gulls — and mammals such as soay sheep, red dear and polar bears, have also trended towards less bulk. Climate Change is Shrinking Many Plant and Animal Species 2011-10-17T05:20:59Z Terence Hanbury White also got a goshawk to fill the void left by a beloved parent, but in a different sense: he never had one. How to Train Your Raptor 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z For such a Crow vanquishes without much trouble eagles, goshawks, shrikes, gerfalcons, sparrow-hawks. Flemish Legends 2011-10-10T02:00:21.467Z "But well is me, my jolly goshawk, That ye can speak and flee; Come shew to me any love tokens That you have brought to me." English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) 2011-11-18T03:00:30.847Z While she gazed in surprise at his sudden appearance, she beheld a transformation, and in less time than it takes to tell, the goshawk had become a gallant knight, with raven locks and flashing eyes. The Fairies and the Christmas Child 2011-09-29T02:00:12.583Z He took with him," says Polo, "fully 10,000 falconers and some 500 gerfalcons, besides peregrines, sakers and other hawks in great numbers, including goshawks, to fly at the waterfowl. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z His new life would be with and for the goshawk alone. How to Train Your Raptor 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z It is never safe to fly the goshawk at a heron of any description. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z The team captured the flight of Ellie, the trained goshawk, as she manoeuvred through a specially designed flight tunnel. In flight movie 2011-04-28T13:07:31Z From this place of vantage she beheld, shortly after, the arrival of the goshawk, and his transformation into a handsome and tender knight. The Fairies and the Christmas Child 2011-09-29T02:00:12.583Z If they be goshawks indeed, and in goodly condition, I doubt not that he will gladly buy them. The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR 2011-04-25T02:00:10.333Z It is a goshawk, a huge bird with golden eyes, like something out of a legend. How to Train Your Raptor 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Only very strong females are able to take hares; rabbits are easy quarry for any female goshawk, and a little too strong for the male. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z The team varied the size and shape of the entry aperture to allow them to film the accurate manoeuvres goshawks use to navigate dense woodland. In flight movie 2011-04-28T13:07:31Z On leaving his love, the goshawk flew past these safely, but when he returned at dusk the next evening, he overlooked them in his eagerness, and was sorely hurt. The Fairies and the Christmas Child 2011-09-29T02:00:12.583Z We shall find game for goshawks, kestrels, jer-falcons, merlins, and every sort. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z Eventually, he will grant the request, and the goshawk that the Wart followed into the woods will try to kill him. How to Train Your Raptor 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z A good female goshawk may kill from 10 to 15 rabbits in a day, or more. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z Female goshawks are significantly larger than their male counterparts with a wingspan of up to 130 cm compared to an average of 105 cm in the male. In flight movie 2011-04-28T13:07:31Z Four species - the osprey, white-tailed eagle, goshawk and marsh harrier - were virtually extinct in Britain during most of the 20th Century. Are birds of prey back? 2011-03-04T10:35:24Z Earl Warren, by giving Simon de Pierpont a goshawk, obtained leave to hunt the buck, doe, hart, hind, hare, fox, goat, cat, or any other wild beast, in certain lands of Simon's. Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured 2011-03-03T03:00:48.597Z By the time of her father’s death, Macdonald, an experienced falconer, had trained kestrels and merlins and peregrines, but she had never cared to train a goshawk. How to Train Your Raptor 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z From various causes it is impossible, or nearly so, to have goshawks in England in the perfection to which 146 they are brought in the East. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z Two tawny owls, a buzzard, goshawk and barn owl - which all need a special certificate to be sold legally - were found at a house in Burnley. Officers seize illegal taxidermy 2011-02-22T09:08:05Z Some farmers are worried by the spread of reintroduced eagles Several species - notably the hen harrier, golden eagle and goshawk - are still at risk. Are birds of prey back? 2011-03-04T10:35:24Z But the goshawks, the rats, the owls and the torrential rains took their toll, and only one of those eight chicks survived. Basics: Nourishing Nests Lift These Birds to a Higher Perch 2011-01-31T19:28:48Z She also notes that the bird’s volatile reputation is partly due to neurology: the pathways between the goshawk’s sensory neurons and its motor neurons all but bypass the brain. How to Train Your Raptor 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z The hawks used in England are the three great northern falcons, viz. the Greenland, Iceland and Norway falcons, the peregrine falcon, the hobby, the merlin, the goshawk and the sparrow-hawk. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z There are goshawks, falcons, gerfalcons, and all fowls of prey that are in Spain. A Narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557 2011-01-20T03:00:07.377Z Since leaving Bige that morning I had seen no big game, but had shot a goshawk. Camps and Trails 2010-12-20T17:12:16.133Z Of the former there are two kinds, the generous, as the peregrine falcon, lanner, goshawk, &c.; and the ignoble, as the buzzard, kite, &c. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History White was thirty when he quit teaching, rented a cabin far from town, and got a goshawk. How to Train Your Raptor 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Of the foregoing the easiest to keep, most efficient in the field, and most suitable for general use are the peregrine falcon and the goshawk. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z I have brought three falcons and two goshawks for the abbess' perch as my father's rent.... The Abbatial Crosier or Bonaik and Septimine. A Tale of a Medieval Abbess I suspect that our feeling of enmity toward the goshawk is not entirely due to sympathy for the defenseless partridge. Camps and Trails 2010-12-20T17:12:16.133Z A great Arctic goshawk, driven by some unknown whim to follow the edge of winter southward, was sailing on wide wings through the high, familiar cold. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life The male of the goshawk was so called on account of its tractable disposition, and the facility with which it was tamed. Folk-lore of Shakespeare Tiercel.—The male of various falcons, particularly of the peregrine, also tarcell, tassell or tercel; the term is also applied to the male of the goshawk. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z And over all a pale cobalt sky, and a snow-covered hill, where, in the woods, crows sat cawing on the taller trees, and a slow goshawk sailed. The Crimson Tide A Novel The goshawk destroys many song birds, but his particular object in life is to kill partridges. Camps and Trails 2010-12-20T17:12:16.133Z When the knight wishes to send a message, he speaks in the ear of his 'gay goshawk that can baith speak and flee.' The Balladists Famous Scots Series This was that bloodthirsty and tireless slayer, the goshawk, or great grey henhawk. The Backwoodsmen Where rabbits sit out on grass or in turnip fields, a goshawk may be used with success, even in a wood when the holes are not too near. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z Audubon relates a curious instance of sagacity in a goshawk, which he himself witnessed. Harper's Young People, February 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly What should he meet but a gay little goshawk, Flying up from the earth so far. The Nursery, April 1878, Vol. XXIII. No. 4 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers No tercelet for her, but the fiercest goshawk that e’er seized quarry. In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls The goshawk, know, can soar on high, Yet low he nests his brood. Jewish Literature and Other Essays The management of sparrow-hawks is much the same as that of goshawks, but they are far more delicate than the latter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z Henry VIII. presented the Marquis of Dessarages, a Spanish grandee, with two goshawks and four Irish greyhounds.' Anecdotes of Dogs Suddenly the birds, which were warbling on the banks of the stream, all flew away; a goshawk was hovering above us in the sky. Adventures of a Young Naturalist He once offered the reversion in fee of an Irish leasehold for a goshawk. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography A goshawk is a goose hawk, so called from its preying on poultry. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) The writer has known peregrines, shaheens and goshawks to reach ages between 15 and 20 years. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z The crested goshawk may be described in brief as a large shikra with a crest. Birds of the Indian Hills Lord William looked up and stroked the glossy plumage of his gay goshawk. Stories from the Ballads Told to the Children The goshawk and chicken-hawk, in the amount of damage done, far exceed all other birds of prey. Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation It is perhaps needless to remark that no goshawk sings sweetly, much less talks. Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series But, on the other hand, Hubert's goshawk Margaret, a fiery little creature, named inappropriately enough after his tranquil aunt, as a rule did better than Anthony's Isabel, and brought the scores level again. By What Authority? Then Count Richard took one of his brother's goshawks and would not give it up. The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Then Lord William sat down and wrote a letter to his love, and fastened it firm under the pinion of his gay goshawk. Stories from the Ballads Told to the Children Their goshawks again are as black as crows, a good deal bigger than ours, and very swift and sure. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 The hawks which have been trained for the field, are the slight falcon and the goshawk, which are the species generally used in falconry. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 339, November 8, 1828 And not content with the denial, he supplemented it by a laugh as he added, "When birds go to the greenwood, they must take the chance of meeting the goshawk." Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII They swoop upon us like two goshawks on a heron. The White Company The sharp eyes of the goshawk glanced at each beautiful maiden, and quick was he to see Lord William's love, for sweet was she as the flowers that spring in May. Stories from the Ballads Told to the Children For example they have bats,—I mean those birds that fly by night and have no feathers of any kind; well, their birds of this kind are as big as a goshawk! The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 Some, as the goshawk, were formerly trained like falcons. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section F, G and H I met a goshawk on my way home, and the bird informed me that he had lately been to Oz to capture and devour some of the young chickens. The Emerald City of Oz I could not anywhere come by a goshawk nor tassel of falcon. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 When another day dawned the gay goshawk left the birch-tree and alighted on the gate, a little nearer to the lattice window where sat the beautiful lady to whom he had been sent. Stories from the Ballads Told to the Children "Well then, mother dear, turn the twenty-four dancers and pipers into twenty-four grey herons, and let my seven sons become seven white swans, and let me be a goshawk and their leader." English Fairy Tales It was not in a fit state to be preserved, but he described it to me, and I have no doubt that it was a goshawk. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs The raven vanished as a pet, because like the goshawk, kite, and buzzard, he was extirpated in the interests of the game-preserver and hen-wife. Birds in Town and Village In the whistling swoop of the grey goshawk there is a note of ominous blood-thirstiness, silent though the destroyer has sat awaiting the moment for swift and decisive action. Tropic Days Wide she opened her lattice window and, leaning out, she hearkened to the song of the gay goshawk. Stories from the Ballads Told to the Children Suddenly Coo-my-dove changed into a goshawk and around him flew twenty-four grey herons and above them flew seven cygnets. English Fairy Tales For it is something to have a rook, although he is not a great bird compared with the great ones lost—bustard and kite and raven and goshawk, and many others. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs We saw also a flock of paroquets pursued by little goshawks without crests. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Cardan notices that "the best and biggest goshawks come from Armenia," a term often including Georgia and Caucasus. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 A little nearer flew the gay goshawk, and first his song was merry as a summer morn, and then it was sad as an autumn eve. Stories from the Ballads Told to the Children The swanlets took charge of the bride while the goshawk dashed down and tied the bridegroom to a tree. English Fairy Tales This country likewise produces large goshawks, as black as ravens, which are excellent for sport. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time The goshawk is a royal fowl, and is armed more with boldness than with claws, and as much as kind taketh from her in quantity of body, it rewardeth her with boldness of heart. Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus It is now little used in that region, the Terlán or goshawk being most valued, but a few are caught and sent for sale to the Arabs of Oman. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 She put out her hand and stroked the pinions of the gay goshawk, and lo! there dropped from beneath his wing Lord William's letter. Stories from the Ballads Told to the Children A word from Prince Florentine, the goshawk, and they all rose into the air, herons beneath, cygnets above, and goshawk circling above all. English Fairy Tales The American goshawk is the next bird of this family that I will mention, and I am very glad to say that he is only a winter resident. Nature's Serial Story There perched no moulting goshawk, and there no falcon swung. The Lay of the Cid You see, he hadn't forgotten the fright he had had, nor how the goshawk's claws had hurt his back. Sleepy-Time Tales: the Tale of Fatty Coon And as a token of my love I send you by your gay goshawk a ring from off my finger, a wreath from off my yellow hair. Stories from the Ballads Told to the Children A horde of them never seeks to scare him away with angry scolding and feeble assaults, as it does the cruel falcon and the daring goshawk. Confessions of a Beachcomber Like an arrow a goshawk darted upon them, while they, in their fright, huddled together. Nature's Serial Story Birds of prey, winging from the sea, rising from marshlands, swooping from eyries, hover screaming, gannets, cormorants, vultures, goshawks, climbing woodcocks, peregrines, merlins, blackgrouse, sea eagles, gulls, albatrosses, barnacle geese. Ulysses And after he had almost forgotten about the fright the goshawk had given him in the tall hemlock he began to roam through the tree-tops every night in search of squirrels and sleeping birds. Sleepy-Time Tales: the Tale of Fatty Coon And the gay goshawk sang their wedding song. Stories from the Ballads Told to the Children Continually birds of various sorts were flushed, and each was pursued by the appropriate hawk, the snipe by the tercel, the partridge by the goshawk, even the lark by the little merlin. Sir Nigel It rarely seizes its prey while flying, like the goshawk, but with its keen vision will inspect the immediate vicinity from the branch of a tree, and thence dart upon it. Nature's Serial Story TN: In Mediaeval falconry the goshawk was not regarded as a fit bird for a knight. The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems And a goshawk is the fiercest of all the hawks there are. Sleepy-Time Tales: the Tale of Fatty Coon All alone he sat save for his favourite bird, the gay goshawk. Stories from the Ballads Told to the Children Even the goshawk hesitates before taking a swoop at him, not knowing quite whether the gaudy creature is dangerous or only uncanny. Secret of the Woods The goshawk will take a mallard with perfect ease, neatly and deliberately strip off the feathers, and then, like an epicure, eat the breast only. Nature's Serial Story He was clad in a riding-gown of black velvet that hung a little lower than the knee, trimmed with otter fur and embroidered with silver goshawks—the crest of the family of Beaumont. Men of Iron There shall you sit, my gay goshawk, and you shall sing to her as she goes to holy church. Stories from the Ballads Told to the Children The goshawk blinked and peered more close into the tired face of his master. Stories from the Ballads Told to the Children
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