Ke hana nei ka manu nūnū lawe no 15-20 mau makahiki. Hiki i ka manu hoʻomaʻamaʻa maikaʻi ke lele i 1000 km. Hoʻokomo pinepine ʻia ka leka i loko o kahi pahu palaki a hoʻopili ʻia i ka wāwae o ka nūnū. He mea maʻamau ka hoʻouna ʻana i ʻelua manu i ka manawa like me nā leka like, ma muli o ka pōʻino o ka hoʻouka ʻana mai nā manu ʻai, ʻoi aku ka hawks.
Wahi a nā moʻolelo me ke kōkua o nā nūnū lawe, ua hoʻololi nā mea aloha i nā memo. ʻO ka hihia mua i hoʻopaʻa ʻia o kahi manu nūnū i hāʻawi i kahi leka ma 1146 AD. Ua hoʻohana ʻo Caliph o Baghdad (i Iraq) ʻo Sultan Nuruddin i ka leka nūnū e hoʻouna i nā leka i kona aupuni.
I ka wā o ke Kaua Honua Mua, ua hoʻopakele nā manu nūnū o ka pūʻali koa ʻAmelika i kahi pūʻali koa mai ka hopu ʻia ʻana e nā Kelemania. Ma India, ua hoʻohana nā mō'ī Chandragupta Maurya (321-297 BC) a me Ashoka i ka leka nūnū.
Akā, i ka hopena, ua ʻike ʻia ka hale leka, telegraph a me ka Pūnaewele ma ka honua. ʻOiai ʻo ka hoʻopuni ʻia ʻana o ka honua e nā satelite, ʻaʻole i komo ka leka nūnū i ka wā i hala. Ke hoʻohana mau nei nā mākaʻi mokuʻāina ʻo Orissa ma India i nā manu akamai no kā lākou hana ponoʻī. Loaʻa iā lākou he 40 mau nūnū i hoʻopau i ʻekolu papa aʻo: static, mobile a me boomerang.
Aʻo ʻia nā manu ʻano ʻokoʻa e lele i nā wahi mamao e kamaʻilio me ke keʻena nui. Hana nā nūnū o ka māhele kelepona i nā hana o nā ʻano paʻakikī. ʻO ka boomerang ka hana a ka manu nūnū e hāʻawi i ka leka a hoʻi mai me ka pane.
ʻO nā nūnū halihali he lawelawe pipiʻi loa. Pono lākou i ka meaʻai maikaʻi maikaʻi, makemake lākou i ka aila ate manō i hui pū ʻia me ka potash i hoʻoheheʻe ʻia i ka wai. Eia kekahi, koi lākou i ka nui o kā lākou hale.
Ua hoʻopakele pinepine nā nūnū i nā kānaka i ka wā o ka pilikia a me nā pōʻino kūlohelohe. I ka hoʻolauleʻa ʻana i ke kenekulia o ka lawelawe leka uila o India ma 1954, ua hōʻike ka mākaʻi Orissa i ka hiki o kā lākou mau holoholona. Ua lawe nā manu nūnū i ka ʻōlelo a ka Pelekikena o India i ke Kuhina Nui.