For the second consecutive day, falconers failed to catch homing pigeons in the Haddad Al Tahadi Championship, part of the ...

SIR BANI YAS ISLAND, United Arab Emirates (Reuters) - Falcons, long used for hunting in the Middle East and a prized status symbol, are now being adapted for a more mundane problem: pest control. The ...

A young falcon circled around a sagebrush and cheatgrass field south of Arco on Thursday when a few sage grouse burst from the ground. The chase was on. The falcon closed the gap and hit one of the ...

ALEXANDRIA, Minn. - As a girl, Daphne Karpan read the book "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George, a story about a boy who lived in the wild with a peregrine falcon he adopted and trained.

The 17th edition of the Qatar International Falcons and Hunting Festival (Marmi 2026) opened Thursday at Sealine under the pa ...

Richard Shores doesn’t like to walk away from the birds, glossy and alert, perched on his front lawn. Lagertha, a Harris hawk with a strong grip, keeps an eye on Shores’ dog, Bella. Bruno, a ...

Falconry, the art of hunting game with trained birds of prey, is a big deal in the Middle East. While falconry itself is an ancient practice in the desert and a means of survival, doing so from within ...

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