Eagle Festival Tour I N M O N G O L I A
Eagle hunt foxes, wild cats ( also called as pallas cats), rabbits and there are even some rumors that say they used to hunt wolves. There are two types of eagles that eagle falconers use to do the hunting.
Eagle falconry, Kazakh traditional sport has been maintained from father to son for last 2000 years. Some say thousand years. In the past, on Central Asian steppes Kazakhs used to hunt with their golden eagles both as men’s sport and for income of some sort
First one is the trained eagles which they catch from their nests when they are chicks, they bring them home and start grow them up and training them like their babies, after two years they become adult and start doing the real hunting. Second one is wild eagles that they catch from the nature by setting up nets and trapping them with some sort of food, usually rabbit meat etc. During Soviet union Mongolia was a satellite Soviet republic and not much of these activities , traditions were allowed during the soviet union later in 1990 became independent after the peaceful revolution. People restarted to practice their religion and traditions again.
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