For falconers who hunt small animals like rabbits and grouse with wild birds of prey, changing Midwest winters are also changing the sport they love.

The Springfield Fire/Rescue Division had a unique rescue last month — and a firefighter uniquely qualified to help. The hawk ...

"For them, hunting with falcons and owning falcons are cultural practices ... falcons are easily sold for 50,000 or 70,000 shekels ($14,000 to $19,000)," he said. Falconry is inscribed on UNESCO's ...

“My empathy is just as much to what I’m hunting as to the bird I have in my hand,” said Tom Doolittle, a retired Fish and Wildlife Service biologist and lifelong falconer in northern Wisconsin.

Neff said she was frustrated that the falconry season got off to a late start this year thanks to an unusually warm fall. “When you are hunting with a raptor, you truly are inserting yourself ...

After she slips on a thick leather glove, out of the box and onto her wrist hops her unconventional hunting buddy, Alexie Echo-Hawk, Echo for short: a juvenile red-tailed hawk.