On my outstretched arm, Papillon fluffed up his ...

30-minute birder Amanda Tuke finds it hard to relax on holiday when so much is going on back home in London…

PHOTOS, LETTERS, TWEETS, QUESTIONS – HAVE YOUR SAY

A combination of spellbinding sport and profound empathetic connection, falconry–a partnership in which the bird maintains the upper hand–offers a window into ‘the deeper magic’, discovers Mary Skipwith

RSPB Ambassador & conservationist

“I know she’s there,” says Dennis. We’re standing on a grassy ridge above a tree-lined watercourse, squinting through binoculars at a tangle of sticks in the canopy of a tall Podocarpus. “Last time, I