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Karl Striedieck (falconer)
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Karl Striedieck is a remarkable person who has any number of achievements to his credit, including being a world-record-holding glider pilot, but I know him best as a falconer.
For about the past fifteen years, Karl catches an immature red-tailed hawk in the autumn, helps teach the hawk to hunt, and releases the hawk in the spring. Considering that only about one out of four red-tailed hawks survive its first year, Karl is making a significant contribution to keeping wildlife thriving. At Wild About Animals, Karl was always surrounded by people admiring Zoey, who was his red-tailed hawk of the winter.
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Although the following photo wasn't taken inside the arena, it became part of Karl's poster on falconry. Zoey was photographed while applying breaks when returning to land on Karl's wrist.
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The final photo wasn't part of Wild About Animals but does show something of falconry: How to give a hawk a drink.
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| Karl released Zoey back into the wild the day after the Wild About Animals exhibition. | |||
