THE ART OF FALCONDRY
According to a writer in the Birmingham Post, the London Zoo is planning to give visitors lessons in the art of falconry. This week a variety of birds of prey used for hunting will be taken from their cages and exhibited on a lawn. Notices will explain how the birds are trained and how they hunt. The birds, also, will benefit. Although they will not be taught to hunt for the amusement of edification of onlookers, they will be so trained that they can fly for exercise. Occosionally some of them will be hooded and leashed to demonstrate how they are managed before being liberated for the chase. The birds engaged in this display will be a goshawk, a peregrine falcon, an Iceland falcon, an Egyptian Saker falcon, and a tawny eagle.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 251, 22 October 1937, Page 4
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