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 ...

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

For the second consecutive day, registration continued yesterday, for the 17th Qatar International Falconry and Hunting ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...