Falcon Images: The Golden Eagle Festival

The Golden Eagle Festival

Opening night film lion and raved about documentary the eagle huntress came away from the 2016 middleburg film festival as the audience award winners festival organizers announced monday. Traditional kazakh craft work and food is available at the event.

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Eagle Festival 2017 Mongolia

The kazakhs of mongolia train their eagles to hunt for rabbits and foxes.

The golden eagle festival. A powerful beak and talons advertise its hunting prowess. The eagle festival is held during the first weekend in october run by the mongolian eagle hunters association. Youre most likely to see this eagle in western north america soaring on steady wings or diving in pursuit of the jackrabbits and other small mammals that are its main prey.

The last festival of the season in early october 5 6 october is the largest golden eagle festival and probably the one with the most tourists. Once a year hunters from all over bayan olgii province gather to celebrate this traditional skill and compete against each other challenges that show off the abilities of both birds and their. Options to get to the event are a shuttle bus from ulgii by kazakh tours 5000 mnt or taxi 10000 mnt.

The golden eagle is one of the largest fastest nimblest raptors in north america. Ceremonies dance performances a parade in the provincial capitals city square and a kazakh play are held in honor of the hunters and their eagles. And this year the 20th anniversary of the festival will take place.

Lustrous gold feathers gleam on the back of its head and neck. With many photographers eagerly taking snaps of the 80 100 golden eagle hunters in traditional costume. It will be 4th times which organized by nomadic trails company with collaboration of local eagle hunters community making it as an annual celebration for the future.

The golden eagle festival is held on the first weekend of october annually in the far west of mongolia organized by local kazakh communities. Each year kazakh hunters from near and far attend the festival with their golden eagles known as berkut to enter them into competitions testing speed agility and accuracy. Among those three golden eagle festivals this nomadic games festival is the youngest and enjoyed by locally in altai town mongolia.

Dark rocky mountainous terrain forms the backdrop to the festivities which incorporate an opening ceremony parade cultural exhibitions demonstrations and handcrafts in the centre of the town of olgii. In western mongolia deep within the altai mountain range an ancient tradition of hunting with golden eagles is still alive. Golden eagle festival sept 30 oct 1 2017 the event is run by the berkut association a local community organization for eagle hunters and is sponsored by nomadic expeditions.

In every year just as the winter hunting season is getting underway golden eagle hunters gather from all over bayan ulgii province western mongolia to celebrate the fascinating tradition and to pit their golden eagles against all comers it is live tradition golden eagle festival.

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