Abstract
Falconry, or hawking, is the taking of quarry in its wild state by using trained birds of prey. Generally regarded as a sport, it seems probable that it began as a way of filling the cooking-pot in the way that a few people in China still use trained cormorants to catch fish. The origins of falconry are obscure but the earliest records are all from parts of Asia and indicate that birds of prey were being trained at least 2500 years ago. Falconry had reached Europe (and, presumably, the Arab countries) by the fifth or sixth century (De Bastyai 1973) and since then, even in Europe, it has never completely died out.
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Bolton, M. (1997). Birds of prey and modern falconry. In: Bolton, M. (eds) Conservation and the Use of Wildlife Resources. Conservation Biology Series, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1445-2_9
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