falconry
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- noun
- /ˈfɔːkənri/
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cetrería
- The past four decades have seen advances in captive breeding, tracking technology, and veterinary care, as well as the advent of an extravagant form of falconry practiced in the Middle East.
- falconry birds
And so the man does falconry.
- And so the man does falconry.
- You know, he, he actually writes one of the first treatises on birds of prey on falconry.
- Only this New England falconry has included owls.
Examples
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Originally from Kazakhstan, he came to this country in 1993 to introduce a form of Kazakh-style falconry to a group in Nebraska.
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Cullen's operation represents a fairly new development in the ancient sport of falconry.
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I, uh... I used to do a bit of falconry when I was a kid.
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The primary thing that people did in the Middle Ages with birds was falconry and hunting.
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The disease has not only killed hundreds of thousands of wild birds in the U.S., but dozens of falconry birds as well.
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While you've been messing about, a new chapter has been written in the history of falconry.
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The listing was prompted by a sharp global population decline blamed largely on capture for the falconry trade.
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In essence, falconry is a hunting partnership between a person and a bird of prey, and it is that cooperative relationship with a wild animal that falconers cherish.
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Falconry techniques have even gained new relevance in the deployment of raptors to shoo nuisance birds away from airports, parks, and agricultural fields.
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The ancient art of falconry requires patience and a deep bond between the trainer and the bird.
Synonyms
Keeping and training hawks for hunting
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Falconry comes from the bird name falcon plus the ending -ry, which means 'practice' or 'place of'. So falconry is the art of training falcons and other birds of prey to hunt and return to their trainer.