What is the unique system of avian medicine, still practised by a guild of specialists in Cairo's medieval districts, where injured wild birds — particularly hawks and kestrels — are treated by traditional healers?

• A Al-bazdar tradition
• B Tabi' al-tayr al-jarih
• C Al-saqqar al-baladi
• D Tuyur al-bawakiya ✓

The bawakiya ('bird men') are a vanishing guild of traditional avian healers in historic Cairo who treat injured raptors with herbal poultices, splints made of palm ribs, and massage — a craft passed through families, rooted in the medieval Mamluk tradition of falconry medicine, and today practised by barely a handful of elderly masters.