(n.) Any large hawk of the genus Astur, of which many species and varieties are known. The European (Astur palumbarius) and the American (A. atricapillus) are the best known species. They are noted for their powerful flight, activity, and courage. The Australian goshawk (A. Novae-Hollandiae) is pure white.
Example Sentences:
(1) H is for Hawk, which has just won the £20,000 prize, describes the year Macdonald spent training a goshawk following the death of her father, a much-admired Fleet Street photographer.
(2) Then add the delight of searching for the amazing wildlife - deer, wild boar and maybe even a goshawk.
(3) White wrote a book, The Goshawk, about his own ill-fated attempts to train such a bird.
(4) The possibility of passaging the species Sarcocystis dispersa from the long-eared owl through the digestive tract of goshawk is discussed.
(5) Fourteen weeks after the operation, the goshawk exhibited a normal stance and good coordination.
(6) A book which explores grief, love and nature – as well as just how you train a goshawk you’ve bought for £800 – won its author Helen Macdonald a second leading literary prize.
(7) The book he wrote, The Goshawk , which Macdonald had known since she was a child, becomes a parallel text within her book.
(8) Some of these conditions are designed to protect threatened species such as the black-throated finch , red goshawk and yakka skink .
(9) One minute my pair of goshawks was describing lines from physics textbooks in the sky, and then nothing at all.
(10) By the late nineteenth century British goshawks were extinct.
(11) No morphological differences were observed between the oocysts-sporocysts from owls (Tyto alba and Asio otus) and goshawk, not even between the muscle cysts of these sarcosporidians in mice.
(12) The goshawk Accipiter gentilis has recently been reintroduced into parts of Great Britain.
(13) There was a flat, hot hand of sun on the back of my neck, but I smelt ice in my nose, seeing those goshawks soaring.
(14) White had – also at a time of great personal suffering in the 1930s – secluded himself away and sought to train a goshawk.
(15) ‘There are divers Sorts and Sizes of Goshawks ,’ wrote Richard Blome in 1618, ‘which are different in Goodness, force and hardiness according to the several Countries where they are Bred; but no place affords so good as those of Moscovy , Norway , and the North of Ireland , especially in the County of Tyrone .’ But the qualities of goshawks were forgotten with the advent of Land Enclosure, which limited the ability of ordinary folk to fly hawks, and the advent of accurate firearms that made shooting, rather than falconry, high fashion.
(16) Part misery memoir, part naturalist diary, the book, documenting Macdonald’s attempts to win the trust of her goshawk Mabel as she struggled to deal with the death of her father, was described by the chair of the judging panel, Claire Tomalin, as “an extraordinary book that displayed an originality and a poetic power.
(17) But you have a slightly better chance on still, clear mornings in early spring, because that’s when goshawks eschew their world under the trees to court each other in the open sky.
(18) It is suggested that trichomoniasis may be a significant mortality factor in goshawks from Britain.
(19) I couldn’t think of a more perfect place to find goshawks.
(20) One goshawk, one sparrow hawk and one hooded crow died during the experimental period, and the remaining 16 birds were killed 14-77 days after the first infection.