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“The Hawk’s Way” — a book review

10,000 Birds

In training, the falconer must never think of rewards and punishments, Nancy Cowan (pictured below, with her Harris’s hawk, Scoter), tells her: “They don’t serve us. She herself is a vegetarian, one of the sort that mourns even roadkill. As Montgomery shows, falconry is different from any other human/animal interaction.