Souq Waqif Falcon Hospital
Specialty hospital treating up to one hundred fifty falcons a day with X-rays, surgery and feather repair.
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This guide to the Souq Waqif Falcon Hospital in Doha opens with director Dr. Ikdam Al Karkhi describing the bond he sees between falcons and their owners, then follows a visitor past Qatari men soothing hooded birds on gloved wrists in the waiting room. It traces what happens behind the reception desk, where technicians sort shed feathers by breed, length, pattern and color during the September-to-January hunting season. Pause by the drawers of sorted feathers to see the raw material of a repair falconers rely on.
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