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Central Park was a “target-rich environment,” in the words of James Eyring, a falconer and a retired Pace University environmental sciences professor.

Highland falconers are training two Maremma sheep dogs to look out for the large birds of prey in the sky.

Courtier Robert Cheseman, Henry VIII’s falconer, gives the same look in a 1533 portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger, one of several magnificent Holbeins on view in “The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England.”

GPS tracking devices also help falconers avoid losing their birds: The best racing falcons are worth millions of dollars.

Unlike many other falconers, they did not plan to enter their birds into the large hawking competition that takes place in Qatar each January.