Hi Ben. I absolutely love your channel. I’ve learned so much about the raptors & birds of prey & falconry. You’re able to deliver a lot of information in such a simple, clear way that’s never condescending. I hope to get involved in falconry someday when we make a move to a more rural area. Until then I’ll keep watching! Thanks! 😊
Hello Ben, I'm getting ready to trap a Red Tail soon and I recently watched your lure training video you did in 2017 and really enjoyed it. Question: Is there a couple of video's you would recommend for me that are post trapping? Training to the perch with a creance for example and any others? I've been out of the sport for years and recently retired, passed the exam and mew inspection and would love some "refresher training" (I'm a general falconer). Looking forward to any videos you might think would be of some help. Enjoy your channel btw and recently subscribed.
Hi,Ben been watching your videos for a week now nonstop cause i just found your channel. I would like to ask you if making a video about bonellis eagle is possible. I watched hawkins falconry video at his youtube channel with his bonellis eagle and i am hooked with this bird With respect, Bill
Drones are a very recent addition to falcon training. They may not be traditional (neither is telemetry or gps tracking) but drone training allows fitness training and waiting-on style training with quicker and more dramatic results than any other training technique. A falcon that refuses to wait-on after genuine attempts using traditional techniques, can typically be trained to fly up to 2,000 feet or higher in just 5-7 drone sessions. After that, they understand the principle and don’t require the drone. Not all falconers care about a falcon being in top physical condition and flying thousands of feet overhead. But many MANY falconers around the world pride themselves on training a falcon to “sky-out” thousands of feet overhead, and then dive and catch prey from that towering height. If you have not personally witnessed it, there is a HUGE difference between a falcon chasing ducks off a ditch from 100 feet, versus flushing a duck under a falcon 3,000 feet up and having the falcon hit the duck when the duck itself is hundreds of feet in the air. Drones are powerful and entirely relevant tools for teaching a falcon to fly and hunt in this manner. This is why drone training is increasingly utilized around the world. I’m not sure what you mean by “professional”.... professional just means you get paid to do something. Very few falconers are professional, other than abatement falconers, and MANY abatement falconers utilize drone training. So I have to disagree with your statement. Both about using drones and about whether or not they are professional. If your goal is to train a falcon to fly extremely high and hunt from great heights, drone training is the quickest way to help them learn this skill. And it IS utilized by professional abatement falconers around the world, as well as hobby falconers. If you are a falconer and personally find no use in this type of training, I respect that. There are countless different styles of falconry around the world. Based off of different species, different pray opportunities, different landscapes, different laws, different traditions, and different objectives. Whatever your objectives are for flying a bird in your area, if this technique doesn’t suit you, that is fine. But for people in areas of wide open country who is objective is to train a large falcon to hunt large game birds and to do so by diving on them from thousands of feet, then drone training is a relevant, highly effective, extremely fast way to accomplish this.
Hi Ben. I absolutely love your channel. I’ve learned so much about the raptors & birds of prey & falconry. You’re able to deliver a lot of information in such a simple, clear way that’s never condescending. I hope to get involved in falconry someday when we make a move to a more rural area. Until then I’ll keep watching! Thanks! 😊
Thank you so much for your kind words. I really appreciate it!
Hi ben. Love your vids. Please make a video on manning and some of the tecniques used to man a bird of prey
Please can you make a video showing how to make an arab falconry hood
Hello Ben. Can you change the altitude limits on the magic pro
Hello Ben, I'm getting ready to trap a Red Tail soon and I recently watched your lure training video you did in 2017 and really enjoyed it. Question: Is there a couple of video's you would recommend for me that are post trapping? Training to the perch with a creance for example and any others? I've been out of the sport for years and recently retired, passed the exam and mew inspection and would love some "refresher training" (I'm a general falconer). Looking forward to any videos you might think would be of some help. Enjoy your channel btw and recently subscribed.
Hi Ben I’m going start my gyr/saker training with a mavic pro , at what height but you start at please. Cheers john
Hi,Ben been watching your videos for a week now nonstop cause i just found your channel.
I would like to ask you if making a video about bonellis eagle is possible.
I watched hawkins falconry video at his youtube channel with his bonellis eagle and i am hooked with this bird
With respect,
Bill
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Using a drone to train your bird is the most stupidest thing I've ever heard, and I'm sure it's the most professional way of doing so, right.
Drones are a very recent addition to falcon training. They may not be traditional (neither is telemetry or gps tracking) but drone training allows fitness training and waiting-on style training with quicker and more dramatic results than any other training technique. A falcon that refuses to wait-on after genuine attempts using traditional techniques, can typically be trained to fly up to 2,000 feet or higher in just 5-7 drone sessions. After that, they understand the principle and don’t require the drone.
Not all falconers care about a falcon being in top physical condition and flying thousands of feet overhead. But many MANY falconers around the world pride themselves on training a falcon to “sky-out” thousands of feet overhead, and then dive and catch prey from that towering height. If you have not personally witnessed it, there is a HUGE difference between a falcon chasing ducks off a ditch from 100 feet, versus flushing a duck under a falcon 3,000 feet up and having the falcon hit the duck when the duck itself is hundreds of feet in the air.
Drones are powerful and entirely relevant tools for teaching a falcon to fly and hunt in this manner. This is why drone training is increasingly utilized around the world.
I’m not sure what you mean by “professional”.... professional just means you get paid to do something. Very few falconers are professional, other than abatement falconers, and MANY abatement falconers utilize drone training. So I have to disagree with your statement. Both about using drones and about whether or not they are professional. If your goal is to train a falcon to fly extremely high and hunt from great heights, drone training is the quickest way to help them learn this skill. And it IS utilized by professional abatement falconers around the world, as well as hobby falconers.
If you are a falconer and personally find no use in this type of training, I respect that. There are countless different styles of falconry around the world. Based off of different species, different pray opportunities, different landscapes, different laws, different traditions, and different objectives. Whatever your objectives are for flying a bird in your area, if this technique doesn’t suit you, that is fine. But for people in areas of wide open country who is objective is to train a large falcon to hunt large game birds and to do so by diving on them from thousands of feet, then drone training is a relevant, highly effective, extremely fast way to accomplish this.
@@benwoodrufffalconry what a polite reply to an ignorant comment
They are great for Training / Fitness / and retrieval if needed. So not stupid at all.