Falconry

Falcons () are birds of prey in the genus Falco, which includes about 40 species. Some small species of falcons with long, narrow wings are called hobbies, and some that hover while hunting are called kestrels. Falcons are widely distributed on all continents of the world except Antarctica, though closely related raptors did occur there in the Eocene.

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species of bird of prey

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thumb|Gyrfalcon call. The gyrfalcon ( or ) (), also abbreviated as gyr, is a bird of prey in the genus Falco (falcons and kestrels) and the largest species of the family Falconidae. A high-latitude species, the gyrfalcon breeds on the Arctic coasts and tundra, the islands of northern North America and Siberia, where it is mainly a resident species. Some gyrfalcons disperse more widely after the breeding season or in winter, and individual vagrancy can take birds for long distances. Its plumage varies with location, with birds being coloured from all-white to dark brown. These colour variations

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thumb|A Eurasian goshawk thumb|Flying a saker falcon

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species of bird

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traditional form of falconry practiced by the Kazakhs and the Kyrgyz

1969 film directed by Ken Loach

Spanish statesman, historian and writer (1332-1407)

treatise by Emperor Frederick II

subspecies of bird

Buzzard is the common name of several species of birds of prey.

The Kasselburg is a ruined hill castle on a 490-metre-high basalt massif in Pelm near Gerolstein in the county of Vulkaneifel in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

thumb|Puppet feeding of a captive California condor chick. thumb|A person in a costume feeding juvenile whooping cranes.

2016 film directed by Otto Bell

mechanism used in falconry

thumb|Page from a Latin translation in Yale University Moamyn (or Moamin) was the name given in medieval Europe to an Arabic author of a five-chapter treatise on falconry, important for early Europeans, which was most popular as translated by Theodore of Antioch under the title De Scientia Venandi per Aves in 1240 to 1241. It also contained a chapter on hunting with dogs and chapters on other related subjects such as diseases of birds. There are about 27 Latin manuscript versions of Moamyn's work with two of them being illustrated throughout, with a well-known copy held in Vienna.

bird breeding method

cultural heritage monument D-4-72-111-22 (0) in Ahorntal, Bavaria