A young falcon inSaudi Arabia fetched more than $170,000, the most expensive sale of thattype of bird and the costliest purchase so far. The incident occured on an annual 45-day auction ofthe hunting birds cherished in Gulf countries.The incident is also to be consideredas rarest of the rarest.The price is nearly eight times higher than falconerswould usually expect to pay for a hunting bird.
The bird was sold onTuesday for 650,000 Saudi riyals ($173,000) by virtue of its uniquecharacteristics and scarcity, the auction's organisers, the Saudi Falcon Club,said. Falconry is an important part of the cultural desert heritageof Arabs of Saudi Arabia and neighbouring countries going back thousands ofyears. The falcon, weighing1.1 kilograms, was captured from the wild in Hafer Al Batin, in north-eastSaudi Arabia, the club said.
The auction fromOctober 3 to November 15 is organised by the Saudi Falcon Club, founded in 2017and supported by the government as a way to preserve and nurture the heritageactivity.Falcons, whose flightspeeds can exceed 300 kilometres per hour, are recognised internationally asendangered. Countries have varying regulations governing their sale, capture,breeding and hunting activities.
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