Falcons are found worldwide, from the fast and slick hobbies to the large and powerful gyrfalcon of the Arctic tundra. In ...

There are 39 species of falcon in the world. They occur on all continents except Antarctica. Falcons belong to a group of unrelated birds called raptors (or birds of prey), which are distinguished ...

But all of that is a world away ... The U.A.E. funds a large-scale breeding program to repopulate the species. A falcon takes down a duck during a training session in the desert outside Dubai.