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Hi Gary - what a gun bird-geeky film review! Love it!</div>
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<div>Nancy</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, January 25, 2026 3:25:51 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Tweeters Tweeters <tweeters@u.washington.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Tweeters] falconry in "Hamnet" movie</font>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The movie <i>Hamnet </i>will presumably win some Oscars this March. I just sat through it. It wasn't bad, although I think I still prefer
<i>Shakespeare in Love. </i></div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">That said, the beginning of the movie had me scratching my head. The leading lady, a falconer of sorts, was flying a Harris's Hawk. "Wait," I thought, " Harris's Hawk? I thought this was a movie about Shakespeare!"</div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I went home and checked. Sure enough, there weren't any Harris's Hawks being flown in Europe until well over two centuries after Shakespeare's death. </div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">This movie was filmed in Britain. The woodland birds that I heard on the soundtrack sounded like British birds to me. That was a pleasant surprise, since most movies feature Red-tailed Hawks and California Quails vocalizing,
no matter on what continent the plots transpires. </div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">There were all sorts of other nice details in this film that the producers got right--even down to the prevalence of filthy fingernails!</div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">There are lots of falconers in Britain. Certainly, the Harris's Hawk is one of the most popular choices for falconers there, but he production team could have found any number of birds that would have been available there
in Shakespeare's time, so Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Common Buzzard, Eurasian Goshawk, Saker, Peregrine, Eurasian Kestrel, and so forth.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Sheesh, Mr. Spielberg!</div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Yours truly,</div>
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