Launch of the King Abdulaziz Cup Heats at the 2025 Falconry Festival RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA, January 2, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — The King Abdulaziz Falconry Festival 2025 reaches its decisive, crowning ...

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 ...

Falconry, the raising and training of falcons for hunting, was once a desert survival skill for Arab nomads and remains a ...

I knew nothing about falconry until my friend Marc Jaubert, a French falconer, introduced me to this ancient art practiced in more than 80 countries including Korea. Falconry is the art of capturing ...

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 ...

Saudi Automobile and Motorcycle Federation (SAMF) President Prince Khalid bin Sultan bin Faisal visited the Yanbu Falconer Club pavilion in Yanbu Governorate during the club’s participation in the ...

Doha: The 17th edition of the Qatar International Falconry and Hunting Festival (Marmi 2026) will commence today, January 1, 2026. Held under the ...

The language of 16th-century falconry entered the colloquial thanks in part to one amateur falconer: William Shakespeare. The hawk cocked her head and glared at me, her eyes gleaming golden with ...

For reasons that might surprise you, Claire Foy won’t be putting a falconer’s glove back on any time soon. It’s a conversation the Briton still can’t quite believe she’s having. Foy, famed for her ...