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The discovery of goshawk and sparrowhawk bones suggest that some vicars enjoyed the aristocratic sport of hawking in their spare time.
Squirrels, snowshoe hares, grouse, corvids, woodpeckers, and other medium to large songbirds are all potential prey of the goshawk.
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.
The goshawk dropped from its perch and shot straight at me, somehow streaking through the trees without stirring a branch.
The goshawk landed with a thunk and then leapt up to take off, only to bounce straight into the front net.
Not the friendliest neighbor in the rain forest, the goshawk is one of the most secretive of birds when it comes to nesting.
They weave through the tangled branches of the forest, zigging and zagging, the goshawk right on the thrush's tail, like a shadow.
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.
The footage showed that a jay had been used as a lure in a cage-style trap which had caught a rare goshawk.
Some of these conditions are designed to protect threatened species such as the black-throated finch, red goshawk and yakka skink.
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.
The rabbits returning in masses those lately seasons, goshawk hunters passionated for this hunt will find crowded rabbit warrens and various teritories.
Since a goshawk may occasionally take a chicken or the chicken pest wipe out an entire flock, keeping up chickens is risky business.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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There were two things, however, about which nobody on board the goshawk was thinking.
By the falcon is always understood the female, as distinguished from the tercel, or male, of the peregrine or goshawk.
Sometimes a peregrine is shot, and more rarely, in autumn, a hobby or a goshawk.
Wide she opened her lattice window and, leaning out, she hearkened to the song of the gay goshawk.
The crested goshawk may be described in brief as a large shikra with a crest.
In this ballad the goshawk is endowed with the nightingale's voice.
Sweet things are good for a goshawk, which is something of a sweet-tooth.
A goshawk is a goose hawk, so called from its preying on poultry.
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.
She thought it was a crow but it turned out to be a goshawk and it was the first one of those that I had ever seen.
A goshawk which had been killed and which was found at Kielder was identified by its leg ring as having come from Derbyshire.
She had barely escaped paying dearly for her pursuit of the goshawk.
The goshawk was Farina's bridesman, and a very spiriting bridesman was he!
It was of larger size than the British bunting displayed by the goshawk.
He once offered the reversion in fee of an Irish leasehold for a goshawk.
In California, 169,000 trees in burned areas of Eldorado National Forest to restore 10 spotted owl protected activity centers and two northern goshawk sites.
The hearing was told how he scaled a 45ft tree to film the nesting goshawk and fastened a remote-controlled camera to a branch and covered it with a camouflaged T-shirt.
The Goshawk griped the muscle of Farina's arm till the youth was compelled to slacken it with pain.
The first mate of the Goshawk had even been compelled39 to expostulate with his overexcited skipper.
Through the joint venture, Octavian and Goshawk will source and co-invest in distressed, private, and special situations opportunities together.
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