Falconry: Coping beaks
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- This falconry video explains and demonstrates how to properly cope a beak. In captivity, raptor beaks often become overgrown. This happens at zoos, aviaries, and with falconers, educators and wildlife rehabilitators. The ability to safely and properly cope a beak is crucial to long term health and maintenance of a raptor.
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Best falconry channel on the Tube. If you could do an episode on soar hawking training techniques that would be awesome. Thanks for the content.
I was smilling while watching this video. The reason, I've been involved in falconry since the late sixties and I should know everything about the sport. But after watching your videos, I realize I only know the basics. I feel like I'm in a falconry class in college, absorbing knowledge with every video.-Mike
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Ben, This is the best coping video I've seen. I coped my bird today using your technique, and I think it turned out well for my first time. Thanks for putting videos out these types of tutorial videos.
Always glad to see another video from you Ben! Hope you’re well.
As an aspiring birder, I appreciate your sense of humor and passion for wildlife. After seeing your show at Evermore my first thought was "Dang! I hope this guy has a UA-cam channel!" :D
Super informative. I definitely learned a ton. Thanks Ben!
Nice video and please keep them coming, but I would be remiss to ignore an opportunity to provide some feedback:
The upper mandible of a bird is quite different from most mammals, including humans, in that it is not fused to the skull and is capable of some vertical movement independent (secondary articulation) of the skull. Therefore, it actually is more like an appendage, rather than a fused part of the skull.
One has only to observe a member of the parrot family opening it's mouth to observe this feature. Even my passage female prairie falcon routinely moves her upper mandible several degrees of upward rotation from its base, independent of the skull.
Correct. called "cranial kinesis".
@@philipveerman7526 Thank you. I was not familiar with that term.
Fascinating video, Thank you!
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.
I offer to my birds about 2 times a week a chicken or rabbit leg (bone) basically with no meat on it. I hold it so when the bird pulls from the bone it stays in my hand and this significantly decreases the need for coping!
I would love to see that video on coping the talons
It looks like you do it just like my sponsor has shown me. I plan to do it myself with him present to ensure I am doing it correctly. That you for putting this together.
Great stuff as always 👍🏼 could when please have one just on shaping a Falcons beak.
Thanks a lot Ben really great
Great video
on micros I prefer to use a blade, but that's only because I'm extremely confident in my abilities to get it done correctly. The bird i have now will not tolerate a dremel at all and id hate to accidentally hurt her. I have used files, but the xacto seems to work the best for her. Great video Ben, love to wake up to these :)
I feel like it's kind if like cats when they scratch the couch or a tree or the door. They break it off so the fresh part grows and is more effective
thanks, i wanted to see this, i learned basically by myself, with some special files for plastic, they leave a good finish, a couple of times i made a mistake and made the bird bleed, it was not too bad, just a drop of blood without any strong flow, but still, made me fell really bad, i think im cutting too much from the tip, i need a more precide measurement to know exactly where to cut to start the filing
Please make video about feeding birds and best food for them. Thank you for videos
Has anyone had experience with the 3m sandpaper cloth or stair tread material that when wrapped around the sides of a block perch a bird can feel encouraged to cope their own beak daily after meals?
Feed the correct amount of bone and you’ll never have to.
What a great explanation! Thank you. That’s something I was interested in, especially since you said could bleed sometimes. Probably a dumb question, do you have any idea how to do that on a turtle (Carolina 3toe box) ?
I have never had to do that on a turtle. But the way the sheath layers grow on turtles, I would only do step three in my video, similar to how you would approach an owl. I would go slow and careful.
What about the bottom
Do fledgling birds have particular patterns of ranging out from the nest over time? - Last spring I was in thick woods (I live in Maine) and came across a fledgling red tailed hawk (fairly certain of the species). It was curious so I was able get within about 25 ft as it perched maybe 8 ft up in a tree. What I am wondering is, Could I have went back and reasonably expected it would be close to that spot over some given timeframe?
I've spent a lot of time in the outdoors over the years and have had some very close encounters with birds of prey.
Interested in falconry but at my age, I probably will never go through the process to keep birds (It's a lot of commitment and they'd outlive me.). I read a book on falconry when I was very young and then was fortunate to have a 7th grade science teacher who was a falconer that brought his peregrine and a kestrel into class on a few occasions.
Thanks Ben, interesting anatomy I didn't know.
+ Has anyone kept an an osprey? I like fishing...
So what you are saying is that if we bug you enough you'll do a video about whatever we want 😏
Hi Ben.. thanks again for some great information. I've been coping beaks for a while now, but I learned a lot from this. I am planning on taking an eyas ghow this spring, any advice on finding nests? I'm sure it would make this an easier proposition.. thanks again!
Depends on where you live, but they are pairing up and laying eggs right now. Look for old raven and hawk nests and look for the horn feathers sticking out from the top. I’d also recommend playing GHO calls at night in a likely area. The male and female will likely both respond this time of year and give you a good idea of what direction to start looking.
@@benwoodrufffalconry Thanks Ben, I'm actually hoping to get a baby from the rehab I used to work with a couple of years ago. But we'll see. Heh... saw your ad on Raptors Nest just a couple of minutes ago, had to chuckle. What's the story? Almost be worth coming out to get it, just to meet you :-)
Ben, do you use vitahawk or pro-vital? If so, how frequently? Thoughts on it?
I tried a dremel on my own toenail to see what it was like before doing the dog. The mail gets hot from friction, good thing I tried it on myself first, or I might have burned my dogs toe. Would the beak transfer heat and hurt the bird?
That is an excellent question.
The molecular pattern in which bird beaks, bird talons, dog claws and human fingernails are deposited are extremely different. If don’t properly, this does not bother the bird at all. The talons are a bit closer to a dogs claws, and we do have to handle it a bit differently because of different sensitivities. Instead of simply filing or using a dremel the entire time, for talons we measure and carefully clip firs with dog claw clippers, and then finish shaping with files or a dremel. When I say “we” I don’t speak for all falconers and wildlife workers. But many of us do it this way.
@@benwoodrufffalconry thanks for making all these videos, and also for responding to comments as well.
I was wondering when you cope a falcon do you remove the tomial tooth or do you just reshape them?
On a falcon you just reshape it. Or perhaps I should say, you reduce it on the same angles, but keep the tomial tooth shape, just reduced smaller. Dang I wish now I had drawn that on the white board!!!! I’ll have to make another updated version at some point and include that.
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@@benwoodrufffalconry i had the same question except for red tailed. Luckily I do have a nice closeup pic from trapping day so i will grind down to what the photo looks like (just small bumps). Ty! Love your videos.