ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WSPA) — There’s a new outdoor adventure you can try at Biltmore this summer: falconry. Often called the “sport of kings,” falconry offers a rare chance to connect with some of the ...

The training of falcons as hunting companions dates back nearly 3,000 years and is one of the oldest hunting methods on record. At first, falconry was used to help in hunts, but it quickly became a ...

The language of 16th-century falconry entered the colloquial thanks in part to one amateur falconer: William Shakespeare. The hawk cocked her head and glared at me, her eyes gleaming golden with ...

Sixty years ago, we met Sam Gribley, a fiercely independent teenager from New York City and the main character of Jean Craighead George's book My Side of the Mountain. Sam, dissatisfied with his life ...

Falconry is considered to be the oldest sport known to man. Its participants, called falconers, train birds of prey to hunt game. As Pamela Watts of Rhode Island PBS reports, it’s also a chance to ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The red-tailed hawk sat perched on the twisted limb of an old, dead tree, its eyes locked on the woman traipsing through the briars and thickets below. Wherever Jade Chen went, ...

George Plimpton, once upon a time, inexplicably flogged Intellivision and was the subject of a hilarious fake video game called George Plimpton’s Video Falconry. While the video, below, is wildly ...