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Birds of a Feather...
Falconers Land at Quartz Mountain for 60th National Field Meet
By Don P. Brown, Communication Specialist

COURTESY JEREMIAH ZURENDA/NORTH FORK OUTDOORS

Birds

Feather

of a

Falconers Land at By Don P. Brown, Communication Specialist

Quartz Mountain For a week in mid-November at Quartz Mountain State

Lodge, being able to get a room was for the birds. Literally.
for 60th National That week, more than 300 people — and the hundred or

so raptors they keep — flocked there for the North American
Field Meet
Falconers Association’s (NAFA) annual field meet.

“It’s like a big family. We are from all walks of life, but
falconry is what brings us together,” said Robert Huber of
Stillwater, NAFA’s central director and the co-chairman

of the 2021 event.
Falconry is a hunting sport that dates to at least 4000
B.C. Sometimes referred to as “the sport of kings,” it
is simply the harvest of wild quarry in its natural habi-

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