It is related that the first Arab to hunt with a falcon and train it was Al-Harith Ibn Muawiya Ibn Thawr Ibn Kinda. He stopped one day by a hunter who was setting up a net for birds, and a falcon pounced on a bird which was caught in the net and began to eat it, but his wings were soon caught in the net. Al-Harith looked at him, astonished at what he had done, and ordered that he be kept