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The North American Falconers Association [25] (NAFA), founded in 1961, is the premier club for falconry in the US, Canada, and Mexico, and has members worldwide. NAFA is the primary club in the United States and has a membership from around the world. Most USA states have their own falconry clubs.
The peregrine falcon is a highly admired falconry bird, and has been used in falconry for more than 3,000 years, beginning with nomads in central Asia. [88] Its advantages in falconry include not only its athleticism and eagerness to hunt, but an equable disposition that leads to it being one of the easier falcons to train. [97]
In recent decades merlin populations in North America have been significantly increasing, with some merlins becoming so well adapted to city life that they forgo migration; in Europe, populations increased up to about 2000 but have been steady subsequently. [3] The merlin has for centuries been well regarded as a falconry bird.
The aplomado falcon's habitat is dry grasslands, savannahs, marshes, and, in Brazil, is commonly observed in some large cities, such as São Paulo. [citation needed] It ranges from northern Mexico and Trinidad locally to southern South America, but has been extirpated from many places in its range, including all of northern and central Mexico except for a small area of Chihuahua.
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:
The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands. [2] [3] Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. [4]
A falcon chick, especially one reared for falconry, still in its downy stage, is known as an eyas [21] [22] (sometimes spelled eyass). The word arose by mistaken division of Old French un niais , from Latin presumed nidiscus (nestling) from nidus ( nest ).
The prairie falcon is resident from Canada (mainly Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan) through the Western United States (west of the Mississippi) and south into Northern Mexico. Like many raptors and falconiformes, the prairie falcon is popular in falconry ; with proper training and care, it is regarded as being equally as skilled as ...