Yannis Hadjinicolaou is pursuing a pictorial history of falconry at New York University Abu Dhabi. Khushnum Bhandari / The National
A falcon perches on the arm of South Korean President Moon Jae-in, left, during his visit to a desert near Abu Dhabi. EPA
Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, left, and King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain, second left, participate in a falcon hunt in Al Dhafra. Mohamed Al Hammadi / Crown Prince Court - Abu Dhabi
Rembrandt's sketch based on a Mughal watercolour of Shah Jahan accepting a falcon, about 1656–1661. A new exhibition at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles shows the influence on Rembrandt of Indian miniatures, which arrived in Amsterdam along new trade routes in the 1600s. Courtesy Getty Museum
A Mughal-era watercolour of Shah Jahan accepting a falcon as a gift, about 1630. Courtesy Getty Museum
'Raptor II' (2016), a photograph of a falcon at Abu Dhabi's Falcon Hospital, taken by Dubai artist Raja'a Khalid at the start of a research project on falcons. Courtesy Raja'a Khalid
Fromentin's Orientalist painting of an Algerian falcon hunt (1885).
An etching from 1605 of the Persian Ambassador to Prague, Mechti Kuli Beg, pictured holding his pet falcon. Courtesy British Museum
