The discovery of goshawk and sparrowhawk bones suggest that some vicars enjoyed the aristocratic sport of hawking in their spare time. |
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Squirrels, snowshoe hares, grouse, corvids, woodpeckers, and other medium to large songbirds are all potential prey of the goshawk. |
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The court heard that Hopkins, who has kept and bred falcons for 22 years, bought the goshawk after meeting a man at a falconry event. |
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The goshawk dropped from its perch and shot straight at me, somehow streaking through the trees without stirring a branch. |
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The goshawk landed with a thunk and then leapt up to take off, only to bounce straight into the front net. |
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Not the friendliest neighbor in the rain forest, the goshawk is one of the most secretive of birds when it comes to nesting. |
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They weave through the tangled branches of the forest, zigging and zagging, the goshawk right on the thrush's tail, like a shadow. |
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The gamekeeper, for a private shooting estate in the valley, faces 19 charges under the Wildlife Act, including 10 of killing rare peregrine falcons, goshawk and sparrowhawk. |
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The footage showed that a jay had been used as a lure in a cage-style trap which had caught a rare goshawk. |
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Some of these conditions are designed to protect threatened species such as the black-throated finch, red goshawk and yakka skink. |
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A second goshawk and a buzzard were also caught in a trap and the gamekeeper was recorded placing them in a sack and carrying them off. |
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The rabbits returning in masses those lately seasons, goshawk hunters passionated for this hunt will find crowded rabbit warrens and various teritories. |
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Since a goshawk may occasionally take a chicken or the chicken pest wipe out an entire flock, keeping up chickens is risky business. |
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The park, the largest in the county system, is home to several protected plants and animals, including the rattlebox, a rare flowering plant, the wood turtle and the northern goshawk. |
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These include the southern cassowary, northern quoll, spotted-tailed quoll, red goshawk, Semon's leaf-nosed bat, ghost bat, spectacled flying-fox, greater large-eared horseshoe bat, Cooktown orchid and brown antelope orchid. |
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A goshawk is never not wild, and there is much beauty in Ms Macdonald's language, in how she tries to convey to readers who will never have flown a falcon what being close to one might feel like. |
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However, Indicator 1.2.3 shows that some species that are sensitive to forest fragmentation, such as caribou, or that live in island habitats, like marten and goshawk, are experiencing reductions in their distributions. |
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The rare and endangered Bonelli's eagle, which lives in the mountain range and woods. Other birds of prey which find an ideal habitat are the Short-toed eagle, Booted eagle and the Northern goshawk. |
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Supramonte Orgosolo of a vast complex of mountains in the most wild and unspoiled the island, home to several bird species, including the kestrel, the goshawk, peregrine falcon, the hawk and golden eagle. |
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George Mutch, 48, was sentenced at Aberdeen Sheriff Court after being convicted of laying illegal traps and killing a goshawk by hitting it with a stick. |
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The Goshawk was probably enough to discourage most pirate corsairs from attacking, but a cruiser was another matter. |
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