Al Mansouri began to study falconry with her father when she was four. After her brother failed to wrestle a hood on a falcon and gave up, Al Mansouri tried—and eventually got it. “’ ...

In an exam room, a wall is stocked with various sizes of falconry hoods - special helmet-like objects made of leather that cover a bird's head and eyes and help keep them calm. The sanctuary ...

Xena, a prairie falcon, sports an eyeless red hood and a GPS transmitter ... Shores, who lives in Apex, has been practicing falconry since 2004. He’s one of about 100 licensed falconers in ...

The hood keeps him and free from distractions ... according to Norvell. Falconry is a sport with a rich history, a shared bond between passionate falconers and their birds, and serious time ...

The Archives holds the biggest collection really in the world of falconry literature, material culture, objects like hoods, lures or hawking bags, photography, and motion picture film. We have ...

in the 1980s, when he was living in B.C., his interest in birds became more than a hobby when he began designing and making falconry hoods – essentially ‘hats’ which cover the eyes of ...

Coaxing the bird out of the back seat of his Toyota Land Cruiser, Mr. al-Humaidi, 40, removed a round hood from its head ... took an interest in falconry a few years ago — to the delight of ...