(n.) The art of training falcons or hawks to pursue and attack wild fowl or game.
(n.) The sport of taking wild fowl or game by means of falcons or hawks.
Example Sentences:
(1) Harris hawks are not known for their speed but they are social birds and easy to train, making them popular for falconry.
(2) He thought it hilarious that God had made a woman with the falconry bug.
(3) It’s a memoir of mourning, a history of falconry, and has this wonderful special vocabulary of falconry.
(4) After all, her book H is for Hawk is a visceral depiction of the grief and depression she fell into after the sudden death of her father in 2007, and her salvation through falconry.
(5) He is also reported to like big game hunting and falconry.
(6) There are thousands of falconers in the UK ("there also are a lot of falconry widows out there"), and several firms use the technique for pest control in London, according to Bishop.
(7) Later, while spending weekends practicing falconry at Blow’s country estate, McQueen relished the contrast with his early foray into ornithology.
(8) For services to Falconry and the Conservation of Raptors.
(9) In one highly compressed volume, we have the working through of the most desperate grief, a potted history of falconry, a rumination on nature, and an essay on the life of White, a writer best known for his sequence of Arthurian novels The Once and Future King .
(10) She has written one other book, an academic history of falconry, but the story told in H is for Hawk is one that was deeply personal to Macdonald, and it took her almost seven years to put it on to paper.
(11) Cortisol and aldosterone levels were measured in plasma of eastern cottontail rabbits (Sylvilagus floridanus) collected by three different methods, i.e., shooting, live-trapping and falconry.
(12) ‘There are divers Sorts and Sizes of Goshawks ,’ wrote Richard Blome in 1618, ‘which are different in Goodness, force and hardiness according to the several Countries where they are Bred; but no place affords so good as those of Moscovy , Norway , and the North of Ireland , especially in the County of Tyrone .’ But the qualities of goshawks were forgotten with the advent of Land Enclosure, which limited the ability of ordinary folk to fly hawks, and the advent of accurate firearms that made shooting, rather than falconry, high fashion.
(13) Van Vynck recruited Bishop to work on the Trafalgar Square clearance because his then job as head falconer at the English School of Falconry had given him plenty of experience of dealing with the public.
(14) The British Falconers’ Club worked out that for the cost of importing a goshawk from the Continent for falconry, you could afford to bring in a second bird and release it.
(15) She published poetry in her 20s, produced a cultural history of falconry a decade ago, and sees herself as someone who can act as a bridge between academia and the general reader.
(16) Her references to 17th-century disquisitions on falconry sit surprisingly easily in her memoir.
(17) In 2008, Unesco extended its reach to intangible customs and traditions including falconry, French gastronomy and the Spanish flamenco.
(18) Once you start [being interested in falconry], you just keep going and going."
(19) She says she was bullied at school because she was solitary and fascinated by falconry.