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    Falconry is the hunting of wild animals in their natural state and habitat by means of a trained bird of prey. Small animals are hunted; squirrels and...
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  • In falconry, a mews is a birdhouse designed to house one or more birds of prey. In falconry there are two types of mews: the freeloft mews and traditional...
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    indigestible plant matter, bones, fur, feathers, bills, claws, and teeth. In falconry, the pellet is called a casting. The passing of pellets allows a bird to...
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  • falconry. The hood is handmade, often from kip leather or suitable kangaroo leather. There are two standard types used in American/European falconry:...
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    traditionally made from leather, used to tether a hawk, falcon, or owl in falconry. Jesses allow a falconer to keep control of a bird while it is on the glove...
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    Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Perlin" falconry – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2024) (Learn how...
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    Peregrine falcon (category Falconry)
    admired falconry bird, and has been used in falconry for more than 3,000 years, beginning with nomads in central Asia. Its advantages in falconry include...
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  • captivity, releasing, flight, and either the falcon will be recaptured for falconry or released into the wild. This has also been adapted to other raptor species...
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  • Fostering, in falconry and reintroduction of birds, is a method of breeding birds for their introduction into the wild that consists of placing chicks...
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    A lure is an object used in falconry, usually made of leather with a pair of bird wings or feathers attached. It is often an effigy of a prey species or...
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    hawk" or a peregrine falcon a "duck hawk". Falconry was once called "hawking" and any bird used for falconry could be referred to as a hawk. Aristotle...
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    The Art of Hunting with Birds') is a Latin treatise on ornithology and falconry written in the 1240s by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II. One of the...
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    Pointing Dogs. The Lyons Press. ISBN 978-1-58574-618-7. "History of Falconry". The Falconry Centre. Archived from the original on 29 May 2016. Retrieved 22...
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    Harris's hawk (category Falconry)
    in Western Europe, especially Britain, but it is a popular species in falconry and these records almost invariably all refer to escapes from captivity...
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    represented by the eagle. Golden eagles can be trained to be highly effective falconry birds, though their size, strength, and aggressiveness require careful...
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    Slechtvalk (redirect from Falconry (album))
    (1999–2000), before Shamgar finally settled on Slechtvalk. The debut album, Falconry, was released in 2000 by the now-defunct Dutch label Fear Dark which had...
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    sparrows to quail. The merlin has for centuries been well regarded as a falconry bird. In recent decades merlin populations in North America have been significantly...
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  • Car hawking, or drive-by falconry is a modern falconry technique which relies upon the use of a motor car or other motor vehicle as a base from which...
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  • Takagari (category Falconry)
    Takagari (鷹狩) is Japanese falconry, a sport of the noble class, and a symbol of their nobility, their status, and their warrior spirit. In Japan, records...
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    2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine (mong.) Soma, Takuya. 2012. ‘Contemporary Falconry in Altai-Kazakh in Western Mongolia’The International Journal of Intangible...
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  • it reaches Japan. A recurring motif in the book is Toranaga engaging in falconry. He compares his various birds to his vassals and mulls over his handling...
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    more than a mere pastime, falconry has emerged as a revered art form of sorts. Initially embraced by a select few, falconry gradually burgeoned in popularity...
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    priority to improve monitoring. The northern hawk-owl is considered a falconry bird in Ontario, and may be used to hunt small game with a proper license...
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    Pointing Dogs. The Lyons Press. ISBN 978-1-58574-618-7. "History of Falconry". The Falconry Centre. Archived from the original on 29 May 2016. Retrieved 22...
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    falconry circles in English-speaking countries to refer to the housing of the birds of prey used in falconry. From 1377 onwards the king's falconry birds...
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    it is endemic to the interior parts of North America. It is used as a falconry bird in its native ranges. This is the largest of the North American Buteos...
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    Historia Naturalis. The earliest record of falconry comes from the reign of Sargon II (722–705 BC) in Assyria. Falconry is thought to have made its entry to...
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    more than a mere pastime, falconry has emerged as a revered art form of sorts. Initially embraced by a select few, falconry gradually burgeoned in popularity...
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    Cambridge Digital Library Various formats available at: Project Gutenberg Falconry A Kestrel for a Knave Rache Terms of venery Ernest Fraser Jacob (1968)...
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    Imping (category Falconry)
    species. Imping is mostly done on birds of prey (specially falcons used for falconry), although it is also applied on seabirds, corvids and other types of birds...
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