Falconry is not just a centuries-old tradition. It involves the training of birds of prey and hunting with them. Animal welfare organizations sometimes criticize it harshly. But not only falconers ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a professional falconer, Rosen has trained all of her birds, which now number close to a dozen. Her brood includes Ziggy, a hybrid prairie-gyrfalcon. Jon McPherson for Napa Valley Vintners It is ...

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 ...

She unpacks her role in Philippa Lowthorpe's biographical drama, based off Helen Macdonald's 2014 memoir, following a woman who adopts a goshawk after the death of her father: "I couldn't half-ass it.

Registration for the 17th Qatar International Falconry and Hunting Festival (Marmi 2026) begins today, Sunday, December 21, ...