Outlook Weekend: Birdbrained

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When Jonathan Franklin was a pupil at Eton, the famous British boarding school, he adopted two baby tawny owls and taught them how to hunt. Helen Macdonald dealt with her grief after her father died by training a bird of prey - a goshawk she named Mabel. Yves Rossy wants to swap his plane for a pair of wings. The Swiss former fighter pilot is so obsessed with birds that he has developed a winged jetpack to fly around in. Image: Burrowing Owl Credit: Clive Mason/Getty Images