User:Amenendez2019/Aisholpan Nurgaiv

Early Life

Aisholpan Nurgaiv being a 13-year-old girl Kazakh girl living in northwest Mongolia she was taught life lessons through homeschooling. These life lessons included sewing their own clothes and making embroidery decoration for her home. Being born into a Kazakh family they had to train golden eagle chicks to hunt fox and game. Nurgaiv was the youngest female huntress in the history of eagle hunting tradition following in her dad footsteps. In 2014, Nurgaiv won the eagle hunting competition during the Golden Eagle Festival in Western Mongolia.

Eagle hunting

Eagle hunting has been known to be popular in the Eurasian Steppe. The practice is traced back to the people of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, but can also be found in Mongolia, China, Xinjiang, and Bayan-Olgii. Golden Eagles are what these hunters primarily train, although some have been known to train other species such as falcons, saker falcons, and goshawks. There are different terms for the Kazakh and Kyrgyz people when referring to those that hunt with eagles, or those that hunt with other birds of prey. When referring to regular falconers in the Kazakh dialect, both qusbegi and sayatshy are used in general. Burkitshy is the term used in the Kazakh language for falconers that specialize with eagles. In Kyrgyz, the term for a general falconer is Munushkor, while the term for a falconer who specializes with eagles is Burkutchu.