Climate change is affecting the ancient sport of falconry dramatically


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Stevens and her hawk Alexie Echo-Hawk on one of their hunting sessions in Green Bay, Wisconsin. — Photos: AP

Stephanie Stevens has a good reason to love the bone-numbing cold of winter in Wisconsin in the United States. Every weekend, she loads up her minivan with a large green box and drives out to rural areas, usually the edges of friends' farm fields.After she slips on a thick leather glove, out of the box and onto her wrist hops her unconventional hunting buddy, Alexie Echo-Hawk, Echo for short, a juvenile red-tailed hawk.

"She's intense,” Stevens says, stroking her dappled feathers lightly.

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