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File:Practical falconry, to which is added, How I became a falconer (IA cu31924022530210).pdf
Hunting with eagles is a traditional form of falconry found throughout the Eurasian Steppe, practiced by ancient Khitan and Turkic peoples. Today it is practiced by Kazakhs and the Kyrgyz in contemporary Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan , as well as diasporas in Bayan-Ölgii , Mongolia , and Xinjiang , China .
Falconry is also featured and discussed in The Once and Future King. In Virginia Henley's historical romance books, The Falcon and the Flower, The Dragon and the Jewel, The Marriage Prize, The Border Hostage, and Infamous, numerous mentions to the art of falconry are made, as these books are set at dates ranging from the 1150s to the 16th century.
Mateusz Cygański (c. 1535 – c. 1611) was a naturalist who wrote a book on bird hunting, Myślistwo ptasze, in Polish in 1584 at Krakow, revealing the nature of the land, the status of birds and the methods used in bird hunting in the period. It is among the earliest printed book in Poland and the earliest known Polish work on falconry.
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Frederick II on the second page of the "Manfred manuscript" (Biblioteca Vaticana, Pal. lat 1071). De Arte Venandi cum Avibus (lit. ' On The Art of Hunting with Birds ') is a Latin treatise on ornithology and falconry written in the 1240s by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II.
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.
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