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The taking of raptors from the wild for falconry, although permitted by law under government licence, has not been allowed in recent decades. Anyone is permitted to possess legally registered or captive-bred raptors, although falconers are anxious to point out this is not synonymous with falconry, which specifically entails the hunting of live ...
The North American Falconers Association (NAFA) is a falconry organization composed primarily of falconers.. Founded in 1961 by Hal Webster, Frank Beebe (the authors of "North American Falconry And Hunting Hawks") and other prominent falconers of the time, NAFA is a not-for-profit private association formed to:
A falcon chick, especially one reared for falconry, still in its downy stage, is known as an eyas [21] [22] (sometimes spelled eyass). The word arose by mistaken division of Old French un niais , from Latin presumed nidiscus (nestling) from nidus ( nest ).
A young bar-tailed godwit appears to have set a non-stop distance record for migratory birds by flying at least 13,560 kilometers (8,435 miles) from Alaska to the Australian state of Tasmania, a ...
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 to hunt wild quarry species with a trained raptor. Typically, the falconer will drive around in a car, slowly, seeking suitable small game in the immediate vicinity of the road.
Hunting with eagles is a traditional form of falconry found throughout the Eurasian Steppe, practiced by ancient Khitan and Turkic peoples. Today it is practiced by Kazakhs and the Kyrgyz in contemporary Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan , as well as diasporas in Bayan-Ölgii , Mongolia , and Xinjiang , China .
In Alaska only an apprentice may have a Goshawk.(In Florida you can have a Red shoulder but not a Kestrel. ( The permitted may possess only a red-tailed hawk (Buteo iamaicensis) or a red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus)Article IV, Sec.9, Fla. Const. Law 39-9.005 1/19/94 39-9.005 Falconry.)
A new agreement between Alaska’s capital city and major cruise lines seeks to cap the daily number of cruise ship passengers arriving in Juneau starting in 2026, though a prominent critic of the ...