Falconry - How to Get Started
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- Опубліковано 19 вер 2024
- Marten Benatar, a Board of Director member for The California Hawking Club and Head of Education for The Center for Re-Connecting with Nature, takes his immature Peregrine falcon on a training session in Sacramento, Ca.. During this training session we discuss how to get started in falconry. Be sure and watch this and more videos with Benatar @ www.mentorquest.tv
I should be doing homework but somehow I ended up on youtube watching videos on training hawks..
Same, I was writing an essay on the South.
I'm the original birdman from Union City. The guy that cleans Mike Tyson's pigeon coups at ringside JC got into flying birds because I gave him a yellow high flyer. Anyway somebody left a baby bird of Prey on my driveway, the best I checked online it looked like a sparrow hawk. I fed it and left it in box outside. Somebody took it. I wish I would of raised that bird. I still can't believe I left it outside.😫😫
Jacob Anderson maybe you should be a falconer
Raptors have a 80-90% mortality rate in the wild. Falconers actually help these birds survive.
10%-20% immortal
How is he saying Falconry has only been practiced in North America 100 years? I'm very confident Native American tribes used falconry tactics well over 100 yrs ago. I could be wrong but i doubt it would take much research on that nugget there
@@barrysprince1138 im guessing he's talking about modern falconry since old school falconry was pretty barbaric.
All I see is 3 or 4 year old birds in the side if the road
I was curious about indigenous falconry and it seems that there is no oral tradition or archeological evidence that falconry was a thing in the New World pre-conquest. Wild, because I would have thought it would have been, but apparently not.
Get the kids office computers, where is the best place for them to start on the website, back to the computer it is.
+Scott Mcgregor
haha
+Scott Mcgregor I totally came to comment on that. lol
+filarfragueiro ditto
Becoming a falconer is almost like being a Pokemon trainer; you are required to catch one, just like you are required to have a Pokemon to battle, you have to train it, again, you have to train Pokemon, and you have to hunt with it. It's actually pretty cool. :D
Im still trying to catch my talonflame
Gotta catch em all’
I don't care about what it takes... I'm in love with falconry! I'm all in!
Wow, the CHC! Great memories with that club. I was a member from 1974 to 1998. Great to see that people like you are doing keeping the club strong. Can't wait the go to the next meet. Thx
I first learned about falconry back in the 1980’s from the the CBS prime time soap Falcon Crest. The first few seasons they would actually have a trained falcon on the show in a couple scene and some of the actors would feed it red meat. lol always wanted to learn the sport.. looks really interesting and fun and like hard work.
your passion is amazing .birds of pray are truly magical
Falconry is an amazing sport I love it I'm ready to get started have a sponsor ready but finances are just not stable. But once they do get stable I'm diving head first.
You a falconer yet?
@@ThatOneViking2319 He still hasn't got the fiances stabilized
@@mmmpasta1400 lol
I'm glad to see you stood on your word and got into falconry! I watched your video and seen that falcon squirrel hunting! Good stuff😉
"off the computer" as i am watching this on a computer ha! Jokes aside falconry has always interested me. Thanks for the video.
I think the training and hunting aspects of falconry are interesting and I applaud the men and women who can master such an activity.
It does however make me wonder about people's principles towards wildlife. Training a bird of prey to hunt and kill small game seems to be totally okay in many people's minds. Yet training a dog to trail and tree an animal like a bear somehow seems reprehensible to some of those same people....obviously some people like to pick and choose when it comes to determining hunt ethics.
It is strange I agree. Like how dog hunting rabbits is banned but falcon hunting is legal in Britain. Just a result of training Falcons being less common. If everyone was doing it all of a sudden I am betting it would be banned very very quickly.
Alot of hunting thats done properly involves chance, a proper hunter would come across a deer stuck in a fence and free it rather than shooting it, alot of people do hunt with dogs but mainly to retrieve bird, the ones that use them to tree animals arent properly hunting.
A dog treeing a bear does not happen in a natural setting. So it seems that humans are dictating that a large predator will be run by dogs to exhaustion and then shot out of a tree. Whereas, the falcon hunts to survive and eats what it kills. The falcon is created to do this. That's what is the difference.
@@coffeehugger Chasing a bear, or any game animal, comes as naturally to a dog as it comes to a hawk or bird of prey. Arguably, one of main reasons we took wild canines (wolves) and domesticated them, was because of their hunting abilities.
You could argue that some modern breeds may have maintained that natural instinct better than others, but the instinct is still there nonetheless...modern people (dog owners) have simply forgotten about them or pretend they aren't there.
@@kevinp5325 if you think dogs do descend from wolves you will see that wolves don't form barking gangs that send bears up trees. Catch dogs are so far removed from wolves but a raptor is a raptor and in no way similar to a domestic chicken.
This doesnt teach you how to get started it is nothing more than a falconer interveiw
He mentions the websight with all the requirements in the first minute and breaks down the first few things you kind of need to know as well. Most people are probably just casually interested , have to start somewhere you know!
Having been a falconer myself.. I can say that I havent met any falconer (at least not quality ones) who had been gotten invloved in it by being introducing to it one day... I honestly dont think you can get anyone into it, its a passion from within that comes out.. its much different than any other activitiy. its not a hobby, its a lifestyle.... How did I get into it? I dont know... all I remember is that I was inundated by raptors from when i was a little kid, by their movies, photos, at the zoo.. I didnt know there is something called "falconry" till I grew older and read more and more books that lead me into falconry books. then saught our other like minded people in my local area and then I was among them.... it was not like one day I saw someone flying a bird and say Oh thats cool lets try it.
Why do I keep hearing Falconers say that Raptors are not pets? How exactly do u define a pet? There's mutual benefit between both the person and the bird other than just hunting/survival. I'd say that should be considered friendship like the friendship you have with a dog. Not sure why they don't like calling them pets.
They aren't domesticated animals like dogs and house cats, they are wild animals that have been captured and trained. The training is really for their benefit to make them better hunters. It's an act of conservation to train a raptor.
I like to consider them as partners in action
Mark Malczewski because the birds tolerate you they arent your friends they can be at times but sometimes they foot you if you dont do what they want which means they dig their entire foot into your bare skin and you have to wait 2 minutes to let their foot relax and it hurts like hell
It's just a food relationship, if you didn't feed it it would just fly away, and probably not care about you, though that is my relationship with my cat😹
Because they are wild animals and unlike pets if you let it go it goes back to being wild. Like a wolf or a tiger they arnt pets.
That falcon is so cute lol
Looks like a Barbary
I'm in Bishop California and I'm really intrested in this sport
I think I decided I’m going to train attack rabbits.
you sir have made me laugh
You better get you some buck rabbits then! In talking big antlers!😉
I’m gonna do all that stuff when I turn 14 in a few months could I be a falconer if I have school but I could fly it and work with my sponsor before and after school and stuff
Way to go, mate. Get them kids out and about!! Cheers!
You have to start with a redtail hawk and the apprenticeship period is two years. Check with your state wildlife agency or the Colorado Hawking Club for more information.
I'm in Missouri and attempting to get a sponsor from our state's falconry association. I've contacted the Missouri department of conservation and they're sending me all the information and the regulations. Hopefully I can get into falconry soon, I've wanted to do this for a while and now I'm finally getting my chance.
PO! PO!
What?
Dragon ball Z?? Do you even know what that thumbnail is?
Reading *Falconry & Hawking" by P Glasier, yourself?
Oh, yeah I've watched all of the dragon ball series, I forgot I had PoPo as my picture. I'm currently reading "North American Falconry and Hunting Hawks"
I love this show
Any where to start in Martin county Texas, I'm 15 and would love to start falconry
Such a majestic bird!
> wants to get younger people involved
> immediately insults them
nice one dude
I'm 12 and I do falconry and been doing it since i was 8 with help of course but I didn't need a test or anything I live in the middle east
Blue Fox Plays: Gaming don't you do camel hunting or something
Blue Fox Plays: Gaming ... Wonderful! :) Wouldnt it be cool if you did a video with your dad??
mexican do you want a falcon to help you mow lawns?
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Thank you, Next field meet is January 15-18 2014 at The Topaz lodge hwy 395 on the border of Ca & NV.
I am co-chair with Frank Ely for this meet. It is being co-hosted by NAFA. Come and say hello!
Badass, too much time and dedication for me. Plus I do not have the space for a 8'x8'x8' Hawkhouse. I'm still waiting until the 23rd of Oct. before I can take my damn hunter education class.
Falconry has been around waaayyyy longer than 100 years and have been in this country since the settlers.
Hamadanners not in this country
thats great I live in Sacramento!!
Daniel Dominguez .. Are you going to visit them in person and see if they give a tour/demonstration? (which Im hoping to do in my state!!) When I complete my apprenticeship I planned on bringing my bird to nature centers, schools, or what have you to help connect people to nature and educate on raptors. I adore birds. lol. :-)
The state I come from is an island nation of 4 kingdoms and has a great history (hence the name of the mainland). I come from the northern parts of the most famous of those kingdoms!
Do you have to hunt?
Dimondlover61 Yes. What is the bird else Going to do? Sit and be pretty? :-P
It all depends on your states regulations. The new regulations go into effect January 2014. The minimum age in the U.S. is 12 with a parents consent.
After u let it go.
1) if it catches prey do you have to chase it
2) if it doesnt catch the prey how do u train it to come back to you
Why is it that there are so many more requirements to hunt with a bird than a dog. I would love to get into this but it seems so expensive and time consuming not even the training part. If I'm able to train a bird why can't I just do it instead of having to go through 2 years of my life.
Bryce Rush I think it mainly has to do with the fact that dogs are more similar to us and have been around humans as pets for a longer time than birds, especially here in North America. Many of their requirements are similar to ours because they co-evolved next to us, thus the lesser amount of requirements in the law books with dogs. Birds of prey, on the other hand, have a radically different set of needs and preferences. We don't know this right off the get-go because they never co-evolved next to us like dogs. It's really easy to mistreat a pet when you don't know what you're doing, and that's why we have laws about this stuff.
If you're willing to look into it, you can find out why there's a trapping season for birds of prey. I infer that if you trapped one at any other time of the year, the bird may be a parent to one or more chicks, and if they were gone than those chicks would suffer.
TL;DR: Dogs are better with people than birds because they've been around people longer. Birds probably have nests outside the trapping season.
Bryce Rush Dogs are much easier than birds of prey. The parts other than training seem hard because they are. The training is just a fraction of what it takes to maintain these birds. With dogs, you feed them a bowl of kibble from the store. Take them on walks. Pet them. Throw a ball. Training can be difficult but they are infinitely more simple. With raptors, they need to have a varied diet of whole food that is portioned and weighed (often to the gram) on a regular basis. You then need to determine how quickly they burn off each different type of food, in what temperatures. You need to condition them with various exercises to keep them physically fit. The birds themselves must be weighed at least once every day, and you have to determine which weights it will hunt the best at. Mess up a few ounces and you can lose your bird. It will fly away without a second thought. It doesn't want to be with you the way a domestic animal would. Its opinion of you is based almost completely on food. You must be able to find the right kind of game for your bird. You have to have the right landscape. You cant fly falcons in the woods. Different birds have different attitudes. A redtail could miss a slip and fly up into the trees to wait for another. A goshawk could miss a slip, get angry, and come hit you in the back of the head because its all your fault. You need to have the knowledge to train them right, and that takes time. No matter the amount of training the bird has had, it is wild. If you make a wrong move at the wrong time one day, you'll end up with a bird giving you a quicker-than-you-can-blink death grip, in which it shoves all of its talons into your hand. You feed a bird in the mews every day as a routine, and it will start flying at you and latching onto you when you try to enter the aviary. There are tons of little details that most people don't recognize when considering becoming falconers. Not only that, but they also need specialized equipment. Anklets, jesses, leashes, hoods, perches.... the list is endless. It takes a lot of money and time to do it right, but it is so worth it!
Maustongirl19 Wow great info!
What if it snows where I live
There is falconry in Canada. I am not sure of Canada's falconry regulations.
So I've pretty much memorized all of the California Hawking Club Apprentice Study Guide answers and explanations and I am wondering how much more I should learn before taking the test. I've gone to the Modern Apprentice site and read over all that a few times, and have just received both the books in North American Falconry and Hunting Hawks (unfortunately it doesn't look like I'll be finishing them this summer, though). I've also gone to several raptor centers and volunteered at ARC and HAWKE (mostly for setting stuff up, so I won't be learning too much from that) and spoken to several falconers. How much money should I save up? I live in a suburban area in Florida and plan to trap a red-tail once I become an apprentice and get all the legal papers filled out. I have not yet gotten a hunting license or completed a gun safety course so I need to learn more about that, as well.
I've noticed that the California study guide and the New York one have different answers for the question asking what you should do if someone is footed by an eyass red-tail. NY says to pull the hallux out of your arm and then push the foot forward, but California says to squeeze the back of the bird's head to try to get it to let go before attempting what the New York study guide says... So how should I answer? (What answer would be considered right in Florida?)
+Pie Face There certainly are different technique to get a RT off of your arm. I have been footed by some pretty large birds and in my experience of 15 years as a falconer.......Grabbing the hallux is a viable method IF you don't mind the hawk gripping tighter as you try to pry it from you arm. That is the method that I have used. AND the head method works also but I have never used it. So I would go with the correct answer for your state exam. Either way, you are gong to get footed at onetime or another and just learn to not get your hands in the way. AND teach your raptor that you are no threat for him/her to worry that you are trying to take their food. Good luck in you endeavor.
+Marten Benatar Thank you! I will look into my state's recommendation for that (I still haven't been able to find a study guide for Florida, though). It will probably be a few years before I can truly pursue the sport, since my location isn't all that practical (the neighbors have chihuahuas that would look like dinner to the average raptor and the housing association definitely wouldn't approve of a hawk, unfortunately.)
I heard one site saying that small plastic beads could be glued to a raptor's talons to keep it from injuring other birds that will be cast-mates (the beads can supposively be easily removed by twisting them off). Do you know anything about this and if so, is there any use for using these beads during manning, or is this idea bogus?
+Pie Face I honestly haven't heard of that one. There are lots of ways to socialize raptors to fly in a cast. That particular technique doesn't sound very viable. I would never use something like that to prevent my bird from doing what it does instinctively. I think there are better techniques to socialize raptors to fly in a cast. Operant conditioning comes to mind. I use it, many master falconers use AND if you understand that particular method, it is IMHO the best method. Safe journeys . :-)
I live in Sri Lanka where Falcon Falconry isn't that common, I live in the suburbs around the capital with enough space and bare lands. I intend on buying a peregrine as a pet and hunting (as a hobby). Can they behave like a house pet or do I need to take it out frequently?
take it out hunting, otherwise its a pet and wont be trained to hunt, rather go to the glove for food.
IAI8311 ... Hows it going so far? :)
so sorry sir, may I have your guidance, please. I know in general, the female eagle tend to be larger as compare to a female eagle, but may I ask, between a male eagle vs a female eagle, which is more quieter and which is more noiser? a male eagle OR a female eagle? please reply as I need the answer as soon as possible, and million thanks sir.
Google it
Where is there hawk training in long Beach,ca
Could a person build up enough scars to let the raptor perch on their hand without a glove or is it required by law? I know their talon strength is very strong and not having ever been clawed by a raptor not looking to want that either just curious.
so when you're an apprentice you can have a hawk or kestrel... but AFTER you are licensed how do you get a falcon?
You cacth them sorry for my misspelling
Depending on the laws of your state, you may be able to trap a Peregrin Falcon otherwise after you turn general falconer you can buy a falcon from a reputable breeder.
personally i would get a bird from a breeder, that's better for the wildlife in my opinion.
theMRsome12 actually, technically, it's worse. catching a wild passage bird then releasing it when done gives it a higher chance of surviving to maturity, to then breed in the wild.
Jameson Masias why would you even release it? it's a trained bird ofc it has a lower survival rate. is it required by law to release them in the USA?
Falcon guy: "Get the kids off of the video games to where the real excitement is..."
Pokemon Kid: *Staring at lvl 100 Pidgeot on 3DS screen*
Falcon guy: "Yeah kid, real life lvl 100 Pidgeot"
Hello falcon how old 😊
Hey guys how can I get license of falconry
Falconry sounds great! I would get an osprey some time. Much too expensive for someone like me though :/
I've only heard of one person flying an osprey. They must carry fish to land, so the falconer could not control where the bird landed. Maybe you could control where the osprey went if you had a jet ski with an area for the osprey to land, but ospreys generally aren't good falconry birds. (They are also illegal to keep in several states.) I wondered about this earlier on, but it seems that ospreys aren't very suitable for the hunt. Which is rather unfortunate, because they are among my favorite raptors.
Ok so i've always been interested in falconry and want to get into it when i move out but im just thinking that if i have any normal 9-5 job I wouldn't have time for it so anyone on here who is actually a falconer what is your job?
Off the computer off the games.. yea even when I’m doing falconry my passion will always be video games
Good thing the ol lady is there to check this dude
This bird complete name please?
i'm 16 and i want to join the army as soon as i get out of high school. then i want to get a masters in wildlife biology. i hope that one day i have a falcon :)
+XxAirbornexX What MOS you looking at?
th3m4dj4ck is airborne an mos. Excuse my ignorance
+XxAirbornexX No, Airborne is a skill that you can get in addition to your MOS. What's your interest in the Airborne? I've spent a few years in the 82nd and I ought to warn you that it's not all it's cracked up to be. If you're still interested in serving when you get closer to 18, pick an MOS that will aid you in your civilian life after the Army. You can be Airborne with any job available, but your recruiter is likely to just use you to meet a quota if you're not thinking of your own future.
th3m4dj4ck I want to be a wildlife biologist, which is studying wildlife. I dont think theirs anything in the army that can help me with that, unless I do photography and I don't want to do that in the army.
th3m4dj4ck why isn't it the 82nd what it's cracked up to be. The only reason I want to be a paratrooper is because I don't want to be regular infantry
What does a pet falcon eat ?i mean what do they feed them ? I wanna own one
Frank Kruiser Get a falconry license first, get a sponsor, catch a red tail, practice the sport for two years, take general falconer’s test, buy/catch falcon, train it, voila. They are by no means a pet, and treating them like one will probably kill the bird.
Great video, one question though! In California, after you pass your test and get a sponsor - do you have to be an apprentice for two years *before* catching your bird, or can you catch one and begin training immediately (so long as you have all the requirements) ?
Big Foot you trap the bird after you pass
I have to catch a falcon? Like a pokemon?
One question that I have is do you have to have them hunt
Once trained it will hunt whether or not you want it to.
You legally cannot keep a non hunting bird of prey
what bird do you all falconry with i use a perigrine facon
It’s ironic how he’s like “get the gets outside and off the computers” but it’s a UA-cam vid xd
Im 11 years old and im getting a pet falcon soon but i am still practicing.
A&C Nation Not a pet dude. Your gonna have an unhappy bird if you treat it like a pet.
You might want to do some research on this statement. Birds are declining because of habitat loss, big development, corporate farming and tens of 1000's are being killed on a yearly basis by our clean energy windmill farms. Falconry has no impact on wild raptor populations. It has been documented scientifically by several independent wildlife biologists and USFW.
even though they portray this as a sport, it is also used as a conservation method. the survival rate for birds of prey in the wild is low when you factor in availability of game to the birds, habitats being torn apart due to the continuing expansion of humankind, and the hunting of other animals. A lot of falconers will raise injured birds and chicks, teach them the necessary skills to survive on their own, and set them free so they can reproduce
Can a falconer have a Peregrine in California
Once you become an either general or master (cant remember) falconer, yes
Majestic bird
If I wanted to do this, would raising a bird of prey from a egg work too?
Biohazard Gaming No, you need to be a general falconer first. :)
I tell my mom i want to be a falconer and she looks at me like i'm fucking crazy and asks what's wrong with me. i'm 17 and wanna try something new for once and that's what i get... i'm from new york and just moved to georgia and think it'd be pretty cool to try this
what if i have a hawk that regularly hangs out in my shop with me,
it hangs out with you? does it eat out of your hand?
yes
t-bird shane well you can try letting it fly to a glove or something, but i think it would be a shame to catch it out of the sky like that. but thats just my opinion.
i haven't seen him /her for about a month now, and i cant see myself capturing it against its will,, i have many animals that come and go,, like the coyotes just came back,, wild outside my shop,, playful and fun dogs inside the shop..
t-bird shane that's a nice place you have there, you can consider yourself lucky.
Hey bro I have a baby hawk. can you help me to grow and train plzz
Yes, it not simple lifestyle, it is a warrior+royal/life style -harmonious WITH other species
we use falconry to get kids of the computers- so how does one start- well actually there is a website.... on the internet... with ur computer. kool
The irony!
I really want to do this, but I can't find a sponsor. I live in Michigan
Kilix ... Any luck? Where are you looking? :)
FuzzyWuzzy was a? B not yet I'm looking on the Michigan falconry website to try to see if I can go to any events.
Okay what if you capture a wild bird but it has a nest of babies somewhere that it can't feed now and they all die...
Emily when you trap a bird it’s a first year and they aren’t adults and can’t mate until there 3 or 4
I may retest and look for sponsorship/ move back California. Seems like Washington states falconry club is non existent.
"falconry has only been in america for less than a hundred years"
... america has only existed for like 200 years
Shh shhh Go with it...
of course lol i meant the nation itself
History lesson; Europeans have been here (America) since the 16th century. Since you wrote this in 2016, let's do some math: if Europeans have been here since the 16th century and it's now the 21st century that's 5 centuries, making it approximately 500 years (obviously this century isn't over, so Europeans have been here for a little over 400 years). America declared for its independence in 1776. From 1776 to 2016 is 240 years. In the 1920s is when people gained interest in falconry because of a drawing in a National Geographic magazine. Instead of saying "96 years" the guy decided to round up, like you decided to round down by 40 years. Of course, the sport didn't really take off until the 1950s when laws and restrictions were put into place. So really, the sport has been around with growing popularity for the past 66 years or so.
Leena Williams so native Americans being here doesn't count it's until Europeans come it counts no
fladdada mean lol I was about to say that. More people lived in the Americas than Europe before the colonies
hy guys would it be possible to get a real falcon eggs? and how much could it be not bull shit or scam, looking for ward to hear thanks to the honest once.
What site would be good to start off with in Canada?
I would love to do that sort of thing!
Well Canada/Alberta to be exact!
Peacko ThePeacock Conggzz, you commented your own comment..
Karwan Azar I jusy wanted to say were I wanted to start!!!
Peacko ThePeacock ik, but it was funny xD
Well I wanted to mention it and I forgot to so I had to comment on myself. XD lol
you first need to get a sponsor to learn from for 2 years and you need to take your states falconry test. once you finish with your 2 years you will be an apprentice and be able to take only an american kestrel or a red tailed hawk. as stated in the video
Does a chicken count as a bird of prey
Is it true that all species of raptors allowed for wild capture other that Merlins may be captured from the wild year round in California?
All year round except Peregrine Falcons
Cool, thank you
You bet. Are you a falconer?
Not yet. I just purchased the study guide and manual. Also some other books on falconry
Good for you!! I was just informed that the new CHC apprentice study guide per the Fed regs is available @ Western Sporting. Is that what you bought? Good luck with your adventure!!
Hello. Pigeons not falcons. They fly as fast, dive and can be a pet. And they are safe . And dont cost much. And more color variety. No regulations. We can attract more young folks to our Mother Nature this way. Thanks.
Cant hunt with pigeons, cant train them the same way, many places lables them as pests and you cant have them.
Can u use a owl i like owl more
Only if you become a general or master falconer
can anyone he me I am 14, I live Pennsylvania around cranberry. Am I old enough to star? im having a hard time getting info on it. pls help me.
Yeah, you should be, just contact local authorities to make sure
Yep, the minimum age in PA is 12.
where I live in Louisiana you are required to be 16 to do it which sucks
is that macropus peregrine?
+Dimas Mokko No it is a Anatum Peregrin. But I do have a Hybrid Gyr x Macropus Peregrine. He is a great bird.
What is a Peals Falcon? And can the crosses multiply, or are they sterile, like mules?
A Peals Falcon is a Peregrine falcon that is indigenous to the Pacific Northwest from Washington up to Alaska. Seward area. It is a subspecies of the Peregrine. Falco Peregrinus. For the most part all hybrid falcons are sterile. We still can't release a hybrid in the U.S. for fear that nature might find a way to be fruitful and multiply.
How does your arm not get tired from holing it lol
I know the falconry but just I need license,I know how to training falcon and I know how to catch the wild falcon
The state guidelines is a joke. Not just anyone would be interested in something like this. I trust that anyone truly interested in this art would take good care of their bird.
I want an owl
🐅🐅🐅🐅
I think everything has a 100% mortality rate
in the uk capturing a wild bird is not allowed, we buy a captive chick and train!
+Mixie Palms it's better for us then ... we can get to bond with it from day 1
breeders and no licence needed, although I personally believe we should! My daughter has trained with a falconer and I was there.
+onehappy pepper (onehappypepper) Thats what I would want to do. ( live in the US) As someone thats had experience raising animals I can attest that if you get it as early as possible like almost when they first open their eyes, they have a better chance of imprinting on you, seeing you as protector and alpha.
+Captain Harlock think that was what we (the UK) thought was easier
onehappy pepper Well you are the experts. Besides wouldnt catching said bird in the wild jar its brain a little bit? Im not sure I condone catching a wild bird, thats known only freedom its whole life, and forcing it to live a captive life as an essential slave.
I just saved a baby falcon!
Off the video games lmfao
You Anglo-Saxons should really be praising and thanking hunters from Asia and the Middle East introducing falconry to you
You should really be thanking us for putting a hold on communism. Also thank us for the vehicle and bicycle
Actually falconry was brought back to us after WWII. The soldiers were exposed to it in Germany. The soldiers used falconry to intercept the Nazi's carrier pigeons. We subsidize falconry world wide by our excellent breeding programs. The middle east buys more of our hacked Gyr x Peregrines than from anywhere in the world. We invented modern falconry, and have THE best hunting in the world. That's why the sheiks love to come to the U.S. and hunt. Asia nor the middle East introduced us to nothing in regards to falconry. We found the Harris' Hawk and we invented artificial insemination. The Harris' Hawk is now the most popular falconry bird in the world. Where did we find them? In our Southwestern Deserts in the 1960's. The Gyr x Peregrine is THE most popular falcon in the world to fly. Why? Because the Americans discovered that by hybridizing the two that we got the best of both species behaviors and bred a falcon that is very resistant to disease. So you see it is the Middle East that is thanking us for thinking outside the box and bringing falconry it to the modern world. Bam!!!
Falconry has been apart Of European society since the British got ahold of it. That is when it impacted Europe heavy.
Rusty Shackleford You go that right. What a POS. Good come back LOL!!!
fabrizzio monsalve Oh well, sorry your life isn't as good as us fat Americans. I'm loving my life. How bout you?
Out the video games!, what a devil!
Doesn't look like a peregrine... more like a saker, or something...
His chicken almost flew away after eating
Um...
what if you're like me and just want want a falcon so you can be a badass and listen to the band falconer lol
tbh its kinda wasting the ability of the bird
luke tazbier .. lol. :)
what attracts me the most about falconry (other than that they are quite beautiful) is having that special bond with an amazing creature. :)
When I was young I tried to (unsuccesfully) capture a wild bird. heh. When I learned about falconry I was smittened.
I think if you're interested, you definitely need to dedicate your time/money/energy in training him and hunting with him.
Hunting with a dog, no problem. Hunting with a bird, 2 years of bullshit.
Cake ... lol. :-p
was this guy chewing dip?? what the heck?
I couldn’t get past this guys lisp. Casually harsh. It hurt.