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What Keeps Hawks From Flying Away? Watch This Falconer | Nature

A cotton line, called a creance, keeps the hawk from flying away.

Author and falconer Helen Macdonald takes her new goshawk Lupin out for a first test flight. As a precaution, the hawk is tethered with a long line of braided cotton called a creance and outfitted with a radio transmitter should it fly out of sight.