How To Use Goshawk In A Sentence
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The goshawk's tail is long, but wider than those of the other accipiters; this is the best way to distinguish a Goshawk from a Cooper's Hawk.
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Critics say the bill threatens some of the most ecologically unique areas of the Tongass forest, namely karst limestone habitat, as well as two subspecies: the Queen Charlotte goshawk and the Alexander Archipelago wolf.
Mongabay.com News
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The Tongass supports brown bear, wolverine, northern goshawk, marbled murrelet, marten, Sitka black-tailed deer, the Alexander Archipelago wolf, and healthy runs of five salmon species.
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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
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I've heard falconers say that a goshawk is like a loaded gun: you know it will go off but you don't know when.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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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 observation that juvenile males disperse farther than juvenile females can be considered to be in line with the obviously common pattern of male-biased movements among juvenile birds in northern raptors, including goshawks.
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Similarly shaped raptors, such as peregrine falcons and goshawks, are adept at the agile pursuit and rapid capture of birds in flight.
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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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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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You are right," replied Sumichrast; "it is the Cayenne goshawk, which is characterized by having a head covered with ash-colored feathers, by
Aventures d'un jeune naturaliste. English
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So why cannot hen harriers, sparrowhawks and goshawks be controlled to protect lapwings, curlews, golden plovers and, yes, pheasants and grouse?
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And a goshawk is the fiercest of all the hawks there are.
Sleepy-Time Tales: the Tale of Fatty Coon
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Just as the goshawk disappeared over the trees, it seemed to be followed by a red kite.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, anyone who destroys or disturbs eggs, chicks or nests of birds such as goshawks and peregrines faces up to six months in jail and/or a fine of up to £5,000.
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As a result, seven additional nestling goshawks (three in 1996 and four in 1997) were not measured or banded; however, we still followed the fates of those birds throughout the study.
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For no particular reason I glanced upward and there, gliding low over the trees, was a goshawk.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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The list contains red kites, golden eagles, ospreys, goshawks and even domestic cats.
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Firecrests are far too small for a goshawk to bother about.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was an exceptional guide, able simultaneously to drive a 4WD vehicle, identify a juvenile pale chanting goshawk and relate a children's story about why warthogs run with their tails held erect.
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Similarly shaped raptors, such as peregrine falcons and goshawks, are adept at the agile pursuit and rapid capture of birds in flight.
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We usually call a falconer who keeps that kind of hawk [the goshawk] an austringer.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
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They are also prime real estate for red squirrels, bushy-tailed wood rats, northern goshawks, great gray owls, and long-eared owls.
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The security stakeout at a secret location in the Derwent Valley in Derbyshire aims to stop egg collectors raiding nests and killing protected species such as peregrine falcons and goshawks.
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The diverse vegetation communities support a notable resident and migratory bird fauna, including cliff species such as fox-kestrel Falco alopex, Gabar goshawk Melierax gabar, yellow-billed shrike Corvinella corvina scarlet-chested sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis,, rose-ringed parakeet Psittacula krameri, cliff chat Thamnolea cinnamomeiventris (abundant) and rock dove Columbia livia.
Cliffs of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons), Mali
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From there she can watch red wattlebirds sip the indigo evening and goshawks, white as salt, hunt geckoes in the scrub, the sea a blue presence in her imaginings.
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So why cannot hen harriers, sparrowhawks and goshawks be controlled to protect lapwings, curlews, golden plovers and, yes, pheasants and grouse?
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Well back from today's walk and no goshawk, which is good.
Can a Goshawk Eat My Jack Russell?
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In addition, ten perching bird and eight raptor species, including Mexican spotted owls and goshawks, sometimes nest within these structures.
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Her obsession with training a goshawk becomes intertwined with her grief.
Times, Sunday Times
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So why cannot hen harriers, sparrowhawks and goshawks be controlled to protect lapwings, curlews, golden plovers and, yes, pheasants and grouse?
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So why cannot hen harriers, sparrowhawks and goshawks be controlled to protect lapwings, curlews, golden plovers and, yes, pheasants and grouse?
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Despite my constant presence, the shy but aggressive goshawks went about their vital business of rearing a family.
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Just saw either Denny or Furzey on the goshawk nest who came into site noisily from off-camera and picked at the nest a bit.
L'accent tonique - French Word-A-Day
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Wire cutters were used to take the five-year-old male goshawk, which is grey on top and a cream speckled colour underneath, from a weathering, where it is kept for breeding purposes, between 9pm on Wednesday, March 4, and 7am on Thursday, March 5.
HX News and Sport
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From there she can watch red wattlebirds sip the indigo evening and goshawks, white as salt, hunt geckoes in the scrub, the sea a blue presence in her imaginings.
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The first ship to load at Victor Harbor was the Goshawk taking on a cargo of whale oil in 1838.
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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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Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, anyone who destroys or disturbs eggs, chicks or nests of birds such as goshawks and peregrines faces up to six months in jail and/or a fine of up to £5,000.
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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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We usually call a falconer who keeps that kind of hawk [the goshawk] an austringer.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
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We only got two in the nets, but what we lacked in quantity, we made for in quality - a passage goshawk and a haggard red-tailed hawk.
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This female was probably guarding one or two young goshawks nearby.
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About 35 members of the club's Yorkshire region are taking part in the three-day event during which they will be flying raptors such as peregrine falcon, Harris hawk and goshawk.
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There have been 68 incidents of egg theft, including those belonging to golden eagles, osprey, goshawk, and peregrine, as well as 33 cases of illegal taking and selling of birds of prey.
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Three cedars threw their coarse shadows over the meadow, and as she watched, a soaring goshawk was lost in their breadth.
DANSVILLE
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Cranberry bogs harbor a range of species that are normally associated with more northerly ecoregions such as cranberry (Vaccinium spp.), blueberry (Vaccinium spp.), bog rosemary (Andromeda glaucophylla), buckbean (Menyanthes trifoliata), northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis), fisher (Martes pennanti), and black-billed magpie (Pica pica).
Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests
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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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Oh well, we get the wallabies, devils and quolls, wombats, and then you get the wedge-tailed eagles and goshawks, and lots of owls and bats.
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I spend way too much time doing physical conditioning with my tiercel goshawk, but the result is a bird that knows it can smoke any quarry he's programmed to chase.
Working Like a Dog
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Gamekeepers are legally able to kill animals such as foxes that feed on grouse, but they cannot disturb or kill protected species such as goshawks.
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I would miss the birds: a pair of furious peregrine falcons, a northern goshawk with a nest at the top of a deformed spruce leaning over the water, the three crow pals that worked the rockweed at low tide eviscerating sea urchins, then picked ripe berries on the hillside for dessert.
Bird Cloud
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The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds says thieves are threatening to wipe out the population of rare goshawks and peregrine falcons in the Peak District.
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Not the friendliest neighbor in the rain forest, the goshawk (accipitrine forest hawk) is one of the most secretive of birds when it comes to nesting.
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We have also the lanner and the lanneret, the tersel and the goshawk, the musket and the sparhawk, the jack and the hobby, and finally some
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
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It is a story from the news about their local ‘bird guy’ who must help goshawks, great-horned owls, sharp-shins and merlins as his daily work duties.
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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.
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For example some Goshawk lineages have proven far more productive, with less aggression problems than others, even after being reared and kept under the same parameters.
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The diverse vegetation communities support a notable resident and migratory bird fauna, including cliff species such as fox-kestrel Falco alopex, Gabar goshawk Melierax gabar, yellow-billed shrike Corvinella corvina scarlet-chested sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis,, rose-ringed parakeet Psittacula krameri, cliff chat Thamnolea cinnamomeiventris (abundant) and rock dove Columbia livia.
Cliffs of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons), Mali
