King Abdulaziz Falconry Festival 2025 Concludes with 3,536 Falcons Participating RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA, January 13, 2026 ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — With blood on her beak and her prize between her talons, Glory looked up, pleased with herself. The search for the rabbit had been going on for about 10 minutes, but the hunt ...

In the UAE, falcons are issued government passports, a modern adaptation of a centuries-old tradition. These passports ...

It may be impossible to ever know exactly where and when the practice of falconry — the training of raptors to hunt wild prey for humans — arose. Some experts place its origins between 4,000 and 6,000 ...

A crowd gathered for the Falconry Experience. “Falconry is the craft of hunting wild game with trained birds of prey, and originated in central Asia more than 4,000 years ago — before gunpowder,” ...

Falconry is considered to be the oldest sport known to man. Its participants, called falconers, train birds of prey to hunt game. As Pamela Watts of Rhode Island PBS reports, it’s also a chance to ...

The training of falcons as hunting companions dates back nearly 3,000 years and is one of the oldest hunting methods on record. At first, falconry was used to help in hunts, but it quickly became a ...