The endangered saker falcon is central to the Arabian falconry ... “To target and then dive-bomb a wood pigeon or a grouse from 5,000 feet at nearly 200 miles an hour, and strike it dead with ...

The Saker Falcon (Falco cherrug) is a bird of prey living in plains and forest-steppes in the West and semi-desert montane plateaus and cliffs in the East. The majority of its Central and Eastern ...

Whether building aeries for raptors or scrabbling up perilous rock ledges in Mongolia, biologist and bird behaviorist David Ellis has a mission: to aid the saker falcon. Long a favorite of Middle ...

To examine the evolutionary basis of predatory adaptations, we sequenced the genomes of both the peregrine (Falco peregrinus) and saker falcon (Falco cherrug), and we present parallel, genome-wide ...

In Saudi Arabia, ancient tradition and modern technology meet as falconers take on a new approach to an age-old practice. At the annual King Abdulaziz Falconry Festival in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ...

Genomes of peregrine and saker falcons throw lights on evolution of a predatory lifestyle. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2013 / 03 / 130325111216.htm ...

The National Security Committee said on October 24 that the saker falcons (falco cherrug) were discovered by customs officers in 15 boxes belonging to the two suspects, who were heading to Doha ...

The conservationists hold the rare saker falcon down at Siberia's Taigun hatchery and tattoo the letters S.O.S. onto the base of its bill - part of a new scheme to try and save the bird from poachers.

In the Kosh-Agach district of the Altai Republic, seven representatives of one of the rarest species of birds of prey, the saker falcon, were released under the control of Rosprirodnadzor as part of ...

Considered extinct as a breeding species in the early 2000s, the Saker Falcon was recovered when the first active nest from the new history of the species in Bulgaria was discovered in 2018 ...