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Eagle festival

Oct 2 2026 | By: Jim Zuckerman Photography

The Eagle Festival in Mongolia is fascinating and great to photograph. Golden eagles, who are taken as chicks, are trained to hunt foxes and other small animals. After 6 years the eagles are released back into the wild. In the festival, a hunter's eagle is carried by horseback to the top of a large hill and released. The hunter, far below, calls to the bird, and the winner of the competition is the one whose eagle returns to his gloved hand in the least amount of time. Here, on a galloping horse, the eagle is landing on the outstretched hand of its handler. On one occasion, one of the eagles who obviously marched to the beat of a different drummer flew off to some faraway place. All the other hunters laughed at their embarrassed friend. My settings were 1/1000, f/8, and 400 ISO, and I used a 420mm focal length.

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