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.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — With blood on her beak and her prize between her talons, Glory looked up, pleased with herself. The search for the rabbit had been going on for about 10 minutes, but the hunt ...

Southall Farm & Inn in Franklin offers falconry as part of its adventure program. Properties are adding more excursions and adventures for guests who are seeking a collective outdoor experience.

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 ...

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 is not just a centuries-old tradition. It involves the training of birds of prey and hunting with them. Animal welfare organizations sometimes criticize it harshly. But not only falconers ...

Falconry is the art of hunting with trained raptors. It is thousands of years old, steeped in tradition, very inefficient as a hunting activity and is practiced by about 100 folks here in Montana.

A flurry of feathers and talons, and a Harris’s hawk alights on my outstretched hand, plundering the bit of raw meat sandwiched between my gloved fingers. The surprisingly light bird tosses the morsel ...

Richard Shores, a licensed falconer practicing since 2004, holds Lagurtha, one of his two Harris hawks, on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022 in Apex, N.C. at his home where he houses four birds in a homemade ...