Benji is a Striated caracara, a bird of the falcon family native to the Falkland ... like a dog than a bird sometimes—especially when training on a canine agility course! Benji trained for ...

You’re usually training birds that are juvenile ... At the beginning of the show, a falconer brings out a trained peregrine falcon, which flies around the arena. We spoke to Bill Ponder ...

The next year they doubled the number. After training in the desert, falcons are tied to perches for the drive back to Dubai. The birds’ vision is so acute that subtle movements or changes in ...

Franklin has been watching and thinking about falcons for most of his life. At age 12 he captured and began training a red-tail hawk. He’d take the bird to his father’s 66-acre airport ...