Bob Gordon traveled to Ramona from San Diego to practice a millennia-old sport. This isn’t something anyone can just start doing in one day — it takes years of training along with federal and state ...

Anyone who has ever seen a hawk or falcon effortlessly glide through the sky in pursuit of prey has admired its grace and instinct, but some people, known as falconers, actually hunt with these ...

On Nov. 2, I trapped a juvenile red-tailed hawk and began the process of training. He will likely be returned to the wild after a year or two of guaranteed food, health benefits, and company housing, ...

Adam Baz worked for years as a bird biologist before turning to falconry. Now, his company Hawk On Hand trains these majestic birds of prey for a number of different roles, including private, ...

LOCK HAVEN, Pa. — Meet Thora, a one-year-old red-tailed female hawk. 15-year-old Kassidy Simcox trapped her back in September. The Lock Haven native says she discovered her love for animals at a young ...

“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 ...

Four-year-old Merlin and her younger sister Marina are busy with their coloring books, sitting quietly at a table inside the Iowa Raptor Project headquarters deep in the woods at Macbride Nature ...

CLEMSON — The forest was peaceful as Denzel Johnson strolled through it on a late October morning. All was quiet aside from the faint chirping of birds in very tall trees and the crunching of leaves ...

Birds-I LOVE them! I don’t define myself as a birder, but I love to observe these glorious creatures and listen to their birdsong as they perch in trees, hop along the ground or soar overhead. All the ...