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Falconry is the hunting of wild animals in their natural ... to Norman cultural identity in medieval times. ... 2000), North American Falconry and Hunting ...
The Hound and the Hawk: The Art of Medieval Hunting. ISBN 1-84212-097-2; David Dalby, Lexicon of the Mediaeval German Hunt: A Lexicon of Middle High German Terms (1050–1500), Associated with the Chase, Hunting with Bows, Falconry, Trapping and Fowling, Walter de Gruyter, 1965, ISBN 9783110818604. Emma Griffin (2009).
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:
Various pieces of falconry equipment (Hunt Museum, Ireland) — includes rings, call, bell and hood from the 17th–20th centuriesThe bird wears: A hood, which is used in the manning process (acclimatising to humans and the human world) and to keep the raptor in a calm state, both in the early part of its training and throughout its falconry career.
Russian depiction of Mongolian falconers fox-hunting with a golden eagle. Golden eagles can be trained to be highly effective falconry birds, though their size, strength, and aggressiveness require careful handling to control the risk of injury to the falconer. [1] They have been used in this practice at least since the Middle Ages.
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Gaston III, Count of Foix, Book of the Hunt, 1387–88. Written between 1406 and 1413 by Edward, second Duke of York, The Master of Game is mostly a translation of an earlier work by Gaston Phoebus entitled Livre de chasse, [3] and is considered to be the oldest English-language book on hunting. [2]