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Outdoor Indiana, the state's premier magazine, delivers the wonders of the Hoosier outdoors to subscribers' homes and offices six times a year in 48 pages of vibrant color. For the best of state parks, lakes, wildlife, forests, trails, hunting, fishing, wildflowers and outdoorsy people, plus inside information about the state's out of doors from the DNR's experts, GET OUTdoor Indiana. Subscribe today, only $12 per year.
Humans have kept and trained birds of prey like this red-tailed hawk to hunt other animals for them perhaps as far back as 8,000 to 10,000 years ago, which is when historians speculate the activity started in Persia. The leather straps on the bird are called “jesses” and are used to help tether the bird to the falconer’s gloved hand or to a perch.
Photo by Frank Oliver.
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