FALCONRY

also called hawking the sport of employing falcons, true hawks, and sometimes eagles or buzzards in hunting game. Additional reading The most important early work on falconry is a remarkable and sizable volume written by Frederick II, Holy Roman emperor, The Art of Falconry, trans. and ed. by Casey A. Wood and F. Marjorie Fyfe (1943, reprinted 1969; originally published in Latin, 1596). Emma Ford, Falconry: Art and Practice, rev. ed. (1995), is a broad-based general work suitable for a beginner. Other useful titles include Phillip Glasier, Falconry and Hawking, 3rd ed. (1998); Frank Lyman Beebe and Harold Melvin Webster, North American Falconry and Hunting Hawks (1994, updated and revised printing of 1964); and Mark Allen, Falconry in Arabia (1980, reissued 1984). E.B. Michell, The Art and Practice of Hawking (1900, reissued 1967), and Jack Mavrogordato, A Hawk for the Bush, rev. ed. (1973, reprinted 1985), are regarded as classics. Emma Ford