The sale of Al-Shaheen for a significant sum, according to a Libyan hawk breeder to the “Sky News Arabia” website, is the second in a year after the sale of a falcon for one million dinars. This type of hawk is typically sold at exorbitant rates due to its scarcity and difficulties in hunting it.
The auction, which took hours, witnessed a great competition among fans of hawks, because the falcon is of the type of Shaheen, which is the most famous kind of hawk in the world, and from pure breeds, according to the description of the educators.
After putting a value on the falcon, which came to 4 million and 700 thousand dinars, a businessman from Libya by the name of “Hatem Bawkla” was able to purchase it.
The Shaheen Falcon: why?
A successful transaction and a gold ticket
According to the Libyan falcon breeders Taha Al-Ubaidi, the hawk of Al-Shaheen is rare and has certain qualities that make him a “ticket of gold” for hunters.
This is demonstrated by the fact that certain individuals, despite their limitations, were able to capture rare hawks and resell them for millions of dinars.
Monitoring the times when hawks are active and the traps fishermen have set in the desert and open regions is the basis for the hunting procedure.
Al-Ubaidi continues, “These traps are built according to the kind of animal that will be caught; some of them are placed inside a little goat or small sheep, if we wish to hunt a large falcon.”
The hunter can typically predict the time of his exit to look for a food, and it is noted in the trap. However, the shahin is difficult to rhythm in the traps, which is one of the reasons for its expensive cost.
The instructor claims that hawk hunters also host tournaments and festivals to share experiences because of the competition for the income generated by hawk hunting.
Hawks sold legally
This obsessive hawk hunting pursuit The Libyan Ministry of Economy fears to increase its smuggling abroad; This is difficult for the state to follow the size of the hawks, in addition to the loss of part of the return of their sale to the state.
So it announced that it would allow the export of living birds of all kinds from mid -November to take advantage of the high cost of birds.
The 1994 decision to forbid the export of live birds was cited as the reason for the increase in bird smuggling.
The world is drawn to Libya’s wealth.
Particularly in the east and south, where there is just natural life, Libya is home to many different sorts of unusual prey.
The nation is well-known for its hunting tourism; anglers from all over the globe are eager to visit Libya and set up traps in the hopes of snagging Shaheen in order to make money, since the most expensive hawks in the world were sold there for prices ranging from $400,000 to $1.5 million.
particularly Libya. After rigorous competition, the female “Al-Shaheen” narrative is worth one million dollars.
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