What’s in a Name: Northern Goshawk
10,000 Birds
MARCH 27, 2015
Instead, the name comes from the fact that in falconry, the Goshawk could be used for large prey – geese, yes, and also pheasants, hares, and cranes. As Macdonald herself amply proves, this is classic projection, another case of the human seeing in the nonhuman only what we want to see.
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