(28 Feb 2025)
US FALCONRY CLIMATE
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Greenleaf, Wisconsin – 14 February 2025
1. Various of Stephanie Stevens calling down her hunting falcon, Echo
2. Closeup of Echo’s face
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Green Bay, Wisconsin – 16 February 2025
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephanie Stevens, falconer:
"I have the utmost respect for her because she is always going to be a wild animal. So I also kind of have to know that she’s going to do things that are a little bit unpredictable at times, and I have to respect that."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Greenleaf, Wisconsin – 14 February 2025
4. Wide of Stephanie Stevens and her son, Daniel, walking through forest with Echo
5. Wide of Echo perched in tree
6. Wide pan down of Echo flying out of tree to Stephanie Stevens
7. Medium of Stephanie Stevens and Echo
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Green Bay, Wisconsin – 16 February 2025
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephanie Stevens, falconer:
"You trap them from the wild. they’re already hunting on their own. So there’s that, that, it takes time to kind of build that trust and build that relationship. So what we would do is feed the bird off the glove and then it’s all operant conditioning. I would blow a whistle and she would jump to my glove. And then she, the next day, every day would get a little bit farther and farther until I’m running on a line outside. And then you just build that trust and then you eventually will free fly them and they come back to you. And every time I take her hunting, she has the opportunity to go into the wild and not come back to me. It’s her choosing to come back to me.”
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Mason, Wisconsin – 15 February 2025
9. Medium of a stream in a forest
10. Close of stream flowing in forest
11. Various of Tom Doolittle walking through forest
12. Medium of Tom Doolittle looking at wild Goshawk nest UPSOUND (English)
"At first I thought this was going to be a Cooper’s Hawk nest because they usually prefer pine (trees) and, uh, this one ended up being a Goshawk nest.”
13. Various of wild Goshawk nest in pine tree
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Doolittle, falconer and retired biologist:
"Falconry was my ultimate form because it was, I shouldn’t put it in the past tense, it is, you know, part of who I am. It’s part of where I live. It’s my home. It’s my passion. But when parts of it change, it breaks your heart.”
15. Medium pan up of snowshoe hare tracks in the snow
16. Medium of fallen branches covered in snow
17. Detail of small branch with bark eaten off by a possible snowshoe hare
18. Wide pan right of snow-covered forest
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Doolittle, falconer and retired biologist:
"The hare numbers are extremely low. I mean, extremely low. And I come through here where there still should be suitable habitat and the numbers are still extremely low. So it’s not just that habitat change that’s happened in the last 50 years in northern Wisconsin, it’s now also been the amount of time snow cover remains on the ground. And so there you have December, you’re white on a brown background. You’re (the hare) still white and there’s no snow in March at all. And last year was an example of a catastrophic year for Snowshoe hares because they were, there was just no place for them to hide, even in what would be considered a snowbelt area like we’re sitting in now.”
19. Wide pan down of snow-covered forest
20. Wide of Tom Doolittle walking through forest
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Greenleaf, Wisconsin – 14 February 2025
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Green Bay, Wisconsin – 16 February 2025
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