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

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

Humans have been using birds to hunt for thousands of years. And though the practice is known as falconry, falcons aren’t the only birds that have been trained for the hunt. Northern goshawks ...

Agile and swift predators with unnerving red eyes, northern goshawks are legendary for their ferocity, beauty and amazing flight skills; in medieval Europe, goshawks were the most prized of all ...

The northern goshawk is a bird that likes old forests. The raptor, which can be seen flying through Southeast Alaska’s old-growth forests, was the focus of research biologist Winston Smith’s Juneau ...

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

The Northern goshawk is one of the largest hunting birds in North America. Falconers train and use them to hunt rabbits%2C squirrels and other small field animals. Snow-covered days allow the ...

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

Agile and swift predators with unnerving red eyes, northern goshawks are legendary for their ferocity, beauty and amazing flight skills; in medieval Europe, goshawks were the most prized of all ...