Summary: Italian visual artist Yuir Ancarani's exquisite documentary enters the surreal world of wealthy Qatari sheikhs with a passion for amateur falconry. The opulence of this Middle Easterm gas state is on full display as the men race SUVs up and down sand dunes, fly their prized falcons around on private jets, and take their pet cheetahs out for desert spins in their souped-up Ferraris.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CHA

Summary: Helen Macdonald's bestseller H Is for Hawk told the story of a grieving daughter who found healing in training a goshawk. The goshawk is one of Mother Nature's own fighter jets, capable of finding and killing its prey with the speed of a lightning bolt. Now Macdonald digs deeper into the world of these raptors by following a family in the wild while raising and training a new goshawk of her own.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598 H
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV H

Michell, E. B. (Edward Blair)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: C. T. Branford Co. 1960

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.252 MIC

Ridley, Daisy

Summary: Follows Aisholpan, a thirteen-year-old girl in Mongolia training to become an eagle hunter, a tradition usually passed from father to son.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EAG

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EAG RATED G