It may be impossible to ever know exactly where and when the practice of falconry — the training of raptors to hunt wild prey for humans — arose. Some experts place its origins between 4,000 and 6,000 ...

Wilmington College Professor Carly Maris brought her history class to life recently when officials with the Ohio School of Falconry introduced several birds of prey to students learning about Animals ...

Falconry is considered to be the oldest sport known to man. Its participants, called falconers, train birds of prey to hunt game. As Pamela Watts of Rhode Island PBS reports, it’s also a chance to ...

As soon as Hashbrown launches from his arm, Tyler Sladen starts running. I follow, sprinting through the soft New Mexican sand, dodging cholla cactus and piles of trash, and trying not to lose sight ...

Drawn first to raptor webcams and then to hands-on training, Holly soon found herself flying hawks, hunting rabbits, and forging a profound connection with the natural world. Today, she owns Wing ...

As dawn breaks over the stark mountains and scrubland of California’s Eastern Sierras, falconer Shawn Hayes can be found striding across remote fields with a powerful bird of prey on his gloved wrist, ...

I knew nothing about falconry until my friend Marc Jaubert, a French falconer, introduced me to this ancient art practiced in more than 80 countries including Korea. Falconry is the art of capturing ...

The training of falcons as hunting companions dates back nearly 3,000 years and is one of the oldest hunting methods on record. At first, falconry was used to help in hunts, but it quickly became a ...

The language of 16th-century falconry entered the colloquial thanks in part to one amateur falconer: William Shakespeare. The hawk cocked her head and glared at me, her eyes gleaming golden with ...

The King Abdulaziz Falconry Festival, organized annually by the Saudi Falcons Club at its Malham headquarters north of ...

For reasons that might surprise you, Claire Foy won’t be putting a falconer’s glove back on any time soon. It’s a conversation the Briton still can’t quite believe she’s having. Foy, famed for her ...