How to Use falconer in a Sentence

falconer

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  • Chavez and his falconers use hawks and falcons for the job.
    Ben Brazil, Daily Pilot, 8 Aug. 2019
  • The city plans to keep the falconer on site until the end of the month, when the baby birds are expected to leave the nest.
    orlandosentinel.com, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The falconer in charge of the owl soon rushed in to retrieve the bird, which had since settled on a table.
    Michael Bartiromo, Fox News, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Licensed falconers can take birds from the wild and keep them for hunting.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2020
  • Arab falconers trapped them here until Dubai banned capturing birds from the wild in the 1970s.
    New York Times, 17 Jan. 2018
  • On the terrace, a falconer faces the sea, the bird on his arm scaring off the seagulls, as the fiery orb dips into the Adriatic.
    Mary Winston Nicklin, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Like birds of prey being tamed by a falconer, the envious have their eyes sewn shut.
    Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
  • The bird’s head is bent down toward the falconer’s left hand, which experts note may be holding food.
    David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Guests can learn this ancient art from master falconer Rob White in a hands-on class.
    BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2021
  • The 27 year-old falconer that watches over him: Imogen Davis.
    Micaela English, Town & Country, 1 July 2015
  • The effect is a bit mesmerizing, as the falconer moves the bird's body while its head remains still.
    Leah Asmelash, CNN, 1 Feb. 2020
  • The Four-Star hotel’s master falconer will teach you about the history and rules of hunting with birds of prey.
    Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Nothing was as good as a falconer with his bird, but that cost a couple of hundred dollars a day.
    Ronald D. White, latimes.com, 5 May 2017
  • His intention, the police alleged, was to sell them to wealthy falconers in the Middle East.
    Graeme Wood, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Tango appears to sit on a falconer-like leather gloved and works magic.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 23 July 2019
  • Farmers hire falconers to rid their crops of hungry flocks.
    Vincent Crampton, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
  • When the birds first appeared, the city hired a falconer to scare them away using a hawk, with limited success, Klein said.
    Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022
  • When everything was ready the Khan set out with his ten thousand falconers.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Nov. 2019
  • In order to join this legacy, prospective falconers have to have as much stamina as their birds.
    National Geographic, 21 June 2016
  • Last year, the resort hired its first female falconer, Deanna Curtis, to run the four-year-old program.
    Kate Donnelly, Travel + Leisure, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Part of being a falconer is trapping juvenile birds, up to 90 percent of which won’t make it through their first winter in the wild, Stotts said.
    Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2021
  • While there are all kinds of creatures on the stream, like snakes, Christine is a licensed falconer and knows a ton about birds, including the owls and eagles in some of the most recent videos.
    Colleen Stinchcombe, Woman's Day, 11 Apr. 2020
  • That’s enough to make a suspect of Joe’s good friend Nate Romanowski, a skilled marksman and master falconer who named his baby Kestrel.
    Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 15 May 2020
  • The experience ends with a picnic lunch and wine tasting in the garden, when vineyard falconers will bring in other raptors for the guests to meet.
    Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Over the years, the city has tried options such as reflective materials placed in trees and even the use of a falconer, with limited success.
    Kiet Do, CBS News, 13 Jan. 2022
  • The airport even had contracted with a falconer at one point who used hawks to remove birds from different areas.
    Alexandra Skores, Dallas News, 13 Mar. 2023
  • One falconer had to be terminated on short notice during the study.
    Jeff Kronenfeld, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2020
  • There have been reports of aggressive nesting birds in prior years, but Berthier said this is the first time in recent memory the city has hired a falconer.
    orlandosentinel.com, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The reference to falconers—and their falcons—could be a reference to autonomous weapons, and that could be where the confusion came from.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Nov. 2019
  • Many people observed Morley flying birds in his North End backyard as a falconer.
    Steve Stuebner, idahostatesman, 26 Feb. 2018

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