LANSING - For many falconers, there's nothing more majestic than a raptor in flight. Falconry, the sport of hunting wild prey with trained hawks and falcons, has been well established in the ...

One of the ­oldest forms of hunting, falconry has evolved into a modern sport with a thousand variations. For this bird ...

Gigi Stewart, left, volunteer coordinator with Soarin’ Hawk Raptor Rehabilitation Center, and volunteer Lynne Ostergren care for an injured red-tailed falcon at the center on Lima Road in ...

Cooper's hawk or peregrine falcon? How you can tell Posted February 18, 2018 ... In 1995, after completing work on a raptor exhibit with the Science Museum of Minnesota, ...

Raptors are on view Fridays and Saturdays this summer at in the Columbia River Gorge. Photos with this post show the hawk, falcon and kestrel displayed at the first program. Raptor House ...

My first falconry bird was a red-tailed hawk trapped in Ontario, CA. In the early 1990s, the city of Ontario was still mostly Delhi sand dune habitat, sprinkled with abandoned vineyards.

At falconry events, she enjoyed taking a hawk into a field as her “hunting partner” to ... Meet the husband/wife duo behind Kinnick Stadium hawk flights, Raptor Project. Dick Hakes. Special to ...

Hawk Watch at Mount Hood puts raptors in close view of visitors, though season is ending Updated: Oct. 26, 2012, 11:18 p.m. | Published: Oct. 26, 2012, 10:18 p.m.

The falconry raptor is a natural-born killer trained to return to the glove. “Seventy percent of all young raptors die in the first year (in the wild).

“This year, I’m giving the kids the gift of raptors,” said Patrick. Lord, help me, I thought he said Rapture. But, no: we have several sons who are nature enthusiasts, and Patrick had just ...

Confusingly, duck-hawk is also a nickname for the peregrine falcon in North America. So even if you mix up your raptor names, you might still be correct.