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Published: 2013-12-20 15:51:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 271; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 0
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a dramatic angle shot of 2013 male Gyr x Peregrine "Indy"I also trained two of this bird's brothers, one is still at my site and has caught a pigeon. The other went to work at another site and had nearly made his first kill earlier this week.
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I enjoy reading the comments here as I have no clue. Just noticed the cooper hawk wild around our suburb and started watching him leisurely, I see this can be serious business or adventure. Nothing I am going to do, but I can still appreciate it.
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Taking up falconry is a serious endeavour. It takes a lot of time and patience. It also has a bit of a financial consideration.
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I believe that, also that it is rewarding. I currently have some enjoyable endeavors, yet I admire yours and never knew of it before.
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Sometimes it hurts how much i want one of these hybrids. For my bucket list.
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I wouldn't do it unless you had the open country and game to support it. It's important to fly the bird that is best suited for what you have readily available.
These hybrids are being flown on gulls (on a special use abatemwnt permit) and also pigeons but for falconry purposes could take ducks, partridge, and pheasants.
I personally dislike hybrids and would never have one as a personal bird. Who are we to mess with nature? Why should I fly a hybrid whwn I can do the exact thing with a falcon (in this case specifically the female peregrine) which has evolved alongside her quarry to be a suitable and sporting predator for thousands of years?
We use the hybrids at work because we have to fly the birds while.they are moulting, which pure peregrines do not do well (in falconry situations). For falconry, the quarry is out of season while the bird moults so it is just aa well to put her up and let her push feathers.
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We actually have a LOT of peregrines here. I've seen a couple and know for a fact they thrive "downtown". I also worked with one on a weekly basis when i volunteered. She was absolutely precious, and i've wanted one since. If i were to get one, it would be very much in the future, but it can't hurt to dream. I doubt i could find a hybrid, but i do eventually want a falcon. Possibly a Prairie first since i've always loved those and my sponsor has one at the moment.
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the thing is, wild birds aren't goverent by game laws regarding what has a legal season. They also don't have to worry about having line of sight to a person on the ground. We have quite a few wild peres in central NY and throygh NJ but with regards to using a peregrine in falconry the conditions present are very far from ideal.
Hybrid falcons are readily available feom many breeders if that's what you want to do.. but again I cannot stress enough you have to have a quarry base and the space to fly one in a FALCONRY situation. Wild peregrines fly through a moult just fine, but they aren't In lean falconry condition they're wild fat. They don't have to go back to anyone at the end of the day like a falconry bird does.
before any idea gets out that my birds are kept too thin, I trap (or the camber raised ones, receive) my birds and then proceed to put weight on them. All the while they are learning I'm not a bad thing. I had my birds this year doing creance work above their chamber weights... Sep and Indy came to be at 840 and fly at 810-820 and 800 respectively. Razor came in at 870 and flies at 845-850.
My coopers hawk was trapped at 470 and flies at that same weight.
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I hope my bird will come at her flying weight. Im just glad to be apart of my states falconry community because there will be no shortage of eager helpers. I just today got invited to tag along someones hunts with their Goshawk. I am so excited for it. I always have been weary of worrying about weights. Thats why i've hardly considered a kestrel or merlin because i don't wanna kill a bird.
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if the bird isn't coming, it's not at its flying weight.
Listen to your sponsor first and foremost. There are a lot. a LOT. of idiots out there on the internet, people who think it's ok to starve birds and will tell you to do the same. It isn't right. You shouldn't have to cut a bird more than 10% from what you got it at [I took 10g. 10g!!! off my cooper's hawk, 10% would have been 47g! and he's at his flying weight... mind you, I also pushed him up in weight from what I trapped him at during his manning.]
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