GOSHAWK

[gos.hawk] n [ME goshawke, fr. OE goshafoc, fr. gos goose + hafoc hawk] (bef. 12c): any of several long-tailed accipitrine hawks with short rounded wings; esp: a hawk (Accipiter gentilis) of the northern parts of both the Old and the New World that is larger than a crow and has a white stripe above and behind the eye