Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of hawks in general, and of the Cooper's Hawk in particular.

"Find out what would happen if a falcon and a hawk got in a fight and who would win."--Amazon.com.

One winter morning Jenny discovers a hawk has come to the farm, and she develops a rapport with the graceful sky dancer.

Determined to learn to fly, Rudy adopts a hawk hoping that their kinship will bring him closer to his goal.

Based on the true story of a bird of prey's survival after being struck by a poacher's arrow.

When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer, Helen had never before been tempted to train one of the most vicious predators, the goshawk, but in her grief, she saw that the goshawk's fierce and feral temperament mirrored her own. Resolving to purchase and raise the deadly creature as a means to cope with her loss, she adopted Mabel, and turned to the guidance of The Once and Future King...

Provides information about hawks, eagles, and falcons and efforts to study them, especially the HawkWatch International Raptor Migration Project in the Goshute Mountains in Nevada.

A child observes a father hawk as the bird hunts prey in a suburban neighborhood to feed his family.

"When Sy Montgomery went to spend a day at falconer Nancy Cowan's farm, home to a dozen magnificent birds of prey, it was the start of a deep love affair. Nancy allowed her to work with Jazz, a feisty, four-year-old, female Harris's hawk with a wingspan of more than four feet. Not a pet, Jazz was a fierce predator with talons that could pierce skin and bone and yet, she was willing to work with a human to hunt. From the first moment Jazz swept down...

Recounts the author's experiences hitchhiking on a bet all the way around Ireland with a small refrigerator, and shares his impressions of the people and places along the way.