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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).
Falconry is the hunting of wild animals in their natural state and habitat by means of a trained bird of prey. Small animals are hunted; squirrels and rabbits often fall prey to these birds. Small animals are hunted; squirrels and rabbits often fall prey to these birds.
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 .
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.
The Book contains six texts on falconry, two of which have not survived in any other form. [1] Topics discussed in these texts include the training of hawks and falcons for hunting, and the treatment of their illnesses. [1] Illuminations, produced in a workshop in Suffolk, accompany the text. [1]
The Devonshire Hunting Tapestries are a group of four medieval tapestries, probably woven in Arras, Artois, France, between about 1430 and 1450. [1] The tapestries are known as Boar and Bear Hunt, Falconry, Swan and Otter Hunt, and Deer Hunt .
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Moamyn (or Moamin) was the name given in medieval Europe to an Arabic author of a five-chapter treatise on falconry, important for early Europeans, which was most popular as translated by the Syriac Theodore of Antioch [1] under the title De Scientia Venandi per Aves in 1240 to 1241. It also contained a chapter on hunting with dogs and chapters ...