Jemima ParryJones was a trailblazer in the movement to protect birds of prey in Britain. Her Falconry Centre in Gloucestershire was in the forefront of captive breeding programmes for these threatened species.

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Jemima ParryJones doesn't easily fit into anyone's preconceptions about falconry or falconers. Born and brought up amongst birds of prey, she has a downtoearth directness that has made her a popular figure in falconry circles and in conservation circles around the world.
The film does not attempt to be a guide to the world of falconry or describe the skills in any detail, although inevitably much of its history and its current practice emerge in the course of the film. It is rather a look at falconry today and some of the people who practice it with a special emphasis on Jemima and her work.
Jemima runs with her husband Jo and a team of dedicated workers, the Birds of Prey Conservation and Falconry Centre at Newent in Gloucestershire. The Centre is a focus for falconers around the world because it is here that they run training courses, breed falcons, hawks and eagles as falconry birds and provide an expert fund of knowledge and experience. In the film we see Jemima in the company of other falconers, at the Centre in the training course, at the Game Fair in Scotland, hunting alone in the winter morning near her home with her Harris Hawk and Bramble her black Labrador.
Conservation, with a special emphasis on the conservation of birds of prey is another important theme in the film. Jemima feels it is essential to educate the public and to this end we see her talking to people at the Centre and visiting a school with some of her birds and talking to the kids. The paradox that hunters are often the most concerned about conservation is one of the major issues confronted in the film. The role of the falconer today must be more than that of a trainer of birds and a hunter. They must be aware of the environment as a whole.

Original title: The Falconer's Tale

A Film by Ron Orders

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