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Falconry, or hawking, is the taking of quarry in
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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
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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.
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