Short answers, pulled from the story.
The earliest evidence of falconry dates back to 2,000 BC in Mesopotamia. This ancient practice emerged as humans began training birds of prey to hunt wild animals in their natural habitat.
Frederick II of Hohenstaufen wrote the treatise De arte venandi cum avibus toward the end of his life. This work is widely accepted as the first comprehensive book on falconry and was completed after he obtained firsthand knowledge of Arabic falconry between June 1228 and June 1229.
The saker falcon is the national bird of the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, and Yemen. This species has been used in falconry for over 9,000 years and serves as the national emblem of many Arab countries.
The Altaic Kazakh eagle hunters practice their tradition in the western Mongolian province of Bayan-Ölgii. There are 250 active eagle falconers in western Mongolia who use golden eagles to hunt foxes and other large prey.
Peregrine falcons were removed from the United States endangered species list on the 25th of August 1999. This removal occurred after at least 1,650 peregrine breeding pairs existed in the U.S. and Canada.
Eleven countries including Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, South Korea, Mongolia, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Syria, and the United Arab Emirates nominated falconry in 2010. This nomination led to UNESCO inscribing falconry on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.