Jade Chen and her Red Tail Hawk, Candy Corn prepare to hunt in a wooded field in Grantville, Pa., on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2020. Chen, a Lansdale native who lives in Mechanicsburg, is a second-year ...
Falconry is not just a centuries-old tradition. It involves the training of birds of prey and hunting with them. Animal welfare organizations sometimes criticize it harshly. But not only falconers ...
CLEVELAND. — Roxxy is ready. As apprentice falconer Lisa Fannon attaches a GPS tracker to a strap around one of Roxxy’s legs, the young red-tailed hawk strains to fly away from her perch atop Fannon’s ...
GRANTVILLE, Pa. — 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, Candy ...