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For the first time under one cover, the author has assembled the results of the renewed interest, extensive experimentation, and technological progress that have advanced falconry over the past three decades. The Hunting Falcon is a fresh approach to the sport of falconry. For the first time under one cover, the author has assembled the results of the renewed interest, extensive experimentation, and technological progress that have advanced falconry over the past three decades. Falconer and wildlife biologist, Bruce Haak, details the techniques for training falcons in the classical, game hawking style. Through well-defined chapters, he establishes the fundamentals of care and handling of captive falcons and legal means of acquiring them. Successful strategies for hawking a wide variety of North American quarry are analysed and laced with entertaining and informative anecdotes. Time-honoured techniques for training wild falcons are restated in modern terms. In addition, the education of imprinted and captive-bred falcons, classes of falcons without historical precedence, is concisely outlined for the reader. In a break with tradition, the author uses North America's only indigenous falcon, the prairie falcon, as the primary subject and promotes it as an outstanding hunting partner. His training philosophy and comments on the use of radiotelemetry are added enrichments to the text.

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As one who reads a large number of books and remembers at least some major attribute from each one, it is really great enjoyment to read a work that, right at first from title on and clearly delineated in a dedication, preface, and introduction, narrows the scope of the subject into topics that can be thoroughly expunged in a size of book that one can find time to sit down and read without being overwhelmed. All in all, this reviewer found The Hunting Falcon a breath of fresh air, with new insight, great depth, and clear and concise rationalization throughout. As the old adage goes you can't teach an old dog new tricks. I believe the author has done just that. Mr. Haak is not afraid to lay highly controversial topics on the table, dissect them, spread them out for all to see, and stand firm on his conclusions based on the factual merits he has experienced.

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Bruce Haak, a professional wildlife biologist, has been an impassioned falconer for over thirty years. He acquired his first raptor, a kestrel, in 1963 and has never looked back. He did his thesis for his M.S. in Wildlife Science on the foraging ecology of prairie falcons in northern California and conducted field studies on prairie falcons, peregrines, and other raptors, as well as waterfowl and band-tailed pigeons.

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