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Falconers in Mongolia hunting foxes with a golden eagle, before 1932 Hunting with eagles is a traditional form of falconry found throughout the Eurasian Steppe , practiced by ancient Khitan and Turkic peoples.
Today, it is the largest and oldest falconry club in Europe. 1927 – The British Falconers' Club is founded by the surviving members of the Old Hawking Club. 1934 – The first US falconry club, the Peregrine Club of Philadelphia, is formed; it became inactive during World War II and was reconstituted in 2013 by Dwight A. Lasure of Pennsylvania.
Falconry involves the use of trained birds of prey for hunting. It is also practiced recreationally, as a sport. Falconry is widespread around the world, and is seen in a diverse range of cultures. UNESCO has inscribed falconry as a shared intangible heritage element of eleven countries, including the Czech Republic. [24]
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It is the largest bird statue in Europe, and the largest bronze statue in Central Europe. [35] There remain at least 195 Turul statues in Hungary, as well as 48 in Romania (32 in Transylvania and 16 in Partium ), 8 in Slovakia , 7 in Serbia , 5 in Ukraine , 1 in Austria and 1 in Croatia.
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According to the English falconer Major C R E Radclyffe: "in the summer of 1902 my friend Prince Odescalchi asked me to introduce falconry to Hungary. [1] It seems ironic that British falconers were asked to reintroduce falconry to the lands where its spread across Europe, bought from the east by the Huns and Magyars, first began over 1.000 years ago.