Author Biography: Joe Roy has been involved in falconry since he was a boy, and has hunted hares and rabbits with hawks for the past twenty years. He also has considerable experience in training hawks and falcons, and since the early 2000s has spent part of every summer in Sheridan, Wyoming training gyrfalcons at Dan Konkel's Sage Country Falcons, supplier of some of the most sought-after falcons in the world.
Joe operates Aerial Predators and Ecology, a company dedicated to furthering conservation through education. He gives lectures at public schools and other venues on the subject of predators, with an emphasis on raptors, and how they and we fit into the ecological scheme. Joe has been published widely in periodicals and magazines such as, American Falconry, International Falconer, Ducks Unlimited, North American Falconers Association, and High Country News. He is the author of Duck Hawking, published in 2005 by Hancock House. Joe lives with his family in California. |
