Between 2015 and 2020, a total of 80 Saker Falcons—27 females and 53 males, were released via the hacking method from four aviaries near the town of Stara Zagora. Out of them, 64 had been bred ...

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 ...

He removes a leather hood from each and, one by one, the raptors accelerate faster than a Formula One race car and follow a diving flight ... bred birds. The Saker falcon, a favorite among Arabs ...

And, like many modern-day Mongolians, Chinggis is said to have been fond of the country’s majestic birds of prey — especially the saker falcon. Legend has it that he owed his marital happiness ...

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 ...

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 ...

MOSCOW, June 28 (Reuters) - 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 ...

That kind of money has led to a black market for the birds. The Saker falcon of Mongolia has an estimated black market value of £2.6 million ($4 million), according to Tom Parfitt at The Telegraph.

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 ...

Global meeting on conservation of Saker falcons under way in Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi: More than 28,000 falcons have been issued with passports since 2002, a senior official said on Monday. The ...

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 ...