The word 'falconer' is correct and usable in written English.
It usually refers to a person who keeps and trains falcons and hawks for hunting or sport. For example, "The wealthy lord hired an experienced falconer to keep and train his birds."
Because their pursuit of quarry can take them over considerable distances, longwings are flown over open terrain, such as desert or moorland, so the falconer can keep the falcon in sight.
Longwings take prey either "out of hood," whereby the hood is removed and the falcon flies in direct pursuit from the falconer's gloved fist straight at quarry, or they are flown in a "waiting on" style, in which the falcon climbs high above the falconer, waiting to "stoop" at game flushed beneath it.
When one Colonel Thornton embarked for France in 1814 he and his six guests took three carriages and coachmen, a variety of servants, including chief butler and falconer, three hawks, ten horses, 30 guns and as many as 120 hounds.Remarkable as the spectacle of Colonel Thornton's party must have been, he was hardly alone in his extravagant oddity.
It is not just White who was a keen falconer; Hermann Göring was too, and indeed, Ms Macdonald writes of coming across his own goshawk, stuffed and mounted in an archive.In the end, there is no cure for grief, just as a goshawk can never truly be tamed.
All British birds of prey came under the protection of the law, and a license was required from the Home Office before a falconer could take a young hawk for falconry.
A system of grading for falconers exists in the United States whereby a novice falconer is apprenticed to a more experienced general or master falconer for a period of two years.
With the exception of Bristol's independent mayor, George Ferguson, these are Labour politicians, and Labour peer Lord Falconer is here, too.
The surge in the first three months of this year shows a 50% increase on the same period for the 2010 election and the largest total figure reported for any single quarter to date Lord Falconer, the shadow justice secretary, said the figures showed the Conservatives were reliant on a small pool of large donors, despite Cameron's calls in the past for an end to big money in politics.
One of Mr Blair's closest allies in the government, Lord Falconer, sends his four children to private schools.
Lord Falconer, a close friend of Tony Blair, is expected to leave office when the prime minister does.Terrorism is the main reason given for the split.
And, since Scotland and Wales got their own parliaments, the government jobs looking after them have needed downgrading.But when Downing Street announced that Lord Falconer, an old legal chum of the prime minister's, would take over as the new secretary for constitutional affairs, it said he would not act as either Lord Chancellor or speaker of the House of Lords.
