There’s something majestic and wild about seeing a bird of prey such as a hawk or falcon gliding over a field, then swooping down toward its unsuspecting prey below. For most people, it’s a scene they ...

“The Art of Falconry” explores the unique relationship between human and hawk. Humans have been hunting with birds for at least 5,000 years and in Idaho the practice has become increasingly popular ...

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 ...

DANVILLE — High in the air, Houdini pauses. She sees something. The 9-year-old peregrine falcon drops hundreds of feet in seconds. She closes in on her target, each turn narrowing the gap. Her prey, a ...

Of all the red-tailed hawks that have ever soared on a Texas breeze, only one gets to live in Charlie Alvis’s house, at least during the winter hunting season. “My bird has its own bedroom,” said ...

How Ocean City cleared the gulls from its boardwalk — with falcons and hawks. A hawk and a falcon in the mews where Erik Swanson keeps some of his five hawks and 12 falcons. (A Eurasian eagle-owl gets ...

After decades working in IT, with a window overlooking a car park, Mitch Law took redundancy and now watches his Harris hawk soaring in the wind For nearly 30 years, Mitch Law went to work in the same ...