Another really good video Ben. I'd like to see a video on falcon hybrids. The goods and bads, certain crosses and how they benefit from one another. Example, why is the Gyr/Peregrin such a popular cross in falconry and why would someone opt for a Gyr/Saker or Gyr/Prairie instead. As well as any other points that you feel are important. Keep up the great videos.
Great assessment Ben. The best thing I was told when learning about them was," A prairie can live on a fart." I have always thought their reason for such hard hitting came from their lack of opportunities to feed themselves in the desert. The ones that hit hard became the progenitors of the species.
That, and their habit of feeding heavily on toothy ground squirrels in much of their range. They need to hit such ground quarry hard, so that it doesn't fight back or escape down its burrow.
Another fantastic in depth video on this subject, to be perfectly honest you're the only American I'll listen too and agree with on the subject, then again maybe that's just you Yanks doing it differently...
Hey Ben great video! I am working with my first prairie, a passage tiercel. Your comment about the weight is spot on. After flying passage merlins for over ten years I was amazed how sensitive this bird is to weight fluctuations.
It can be maddening can’t it? Such precision and if you are off, you think you have lost your touch and have no idea what you are doing. When in truth it is just the need for precision weight management with a frustratingly small window of spot on weight.
Excellent and informative video. I live in Colorado Springs and saw a Prairie Falcon today out east in the plains. I am a birder. The Prairie Falcon was flying around and calling. I think he/she was upset. Maybe there was a nest around, but I doubt it this time of year. I would love to learn more about Falconry.
Hi again Ben. just a quick question. how do you transport these birds? if I live in Japan or Siberia for example then I wish to buy a bird from a breeder in Alaska. what are generally the paperwork and mode of transport for this? thanks and have a nice day. kind regards, EJ
Elric John Limuaco I am not familiar with the import process between countries leaving the US. I would definitely contact the US Fish and Wildlife Service for details on permitting on the USA side of things. I have never imported from another country myself, but as I understand it, many countries require a period of quarantine for any birds coming in to a new country, which can be quite an involved process. So I would check with your countries laws and then also contact the US Fish and Wildlife Service to get all the details.
Hello Eric John Limuaco. As far as I know, the breeder from whom you are buying a predator (country of export) must have an export license from the US Fish and Wildlife Service (for the US) for the country of import. And in the country in which you live and you will have a predator (country of import), so you need permission for the house from the local Environmental Protection Agency. The veterinary service in the country of import shall determine the necessary medical examinations (or vaccinations) and the period of quarantine. The usual quarantine is 28 days, but some countries do not require it. The problem is with whom you leave the predator in quarantine to meet the quarantine conditions and was taken care of according to higher ideas. If you don't have a predator, the veterinary service can give you permission to quarantine with you. Transport such a distance is done by air. It is necessary to check with the airline whether it transports animals. (some do not do this or just with your companion and the tent box conditions). From the airport to you or to quarantine a transport company with the necessary authorization, if necessary in the country of importation or yourself. The bird of prey must be unmistakably marked (an indivisible ring or chip) and the proof of some countries requires CITES. That is about everything briefly. It is simple?
@@elricjohnlimuaco4502 Here's how: 1. Let the Breder from the country of export write to you if he is authorized to export to your country and send a scan of the document from the predator. With a scan document to the Environmental Protection Office in the country of import and request consent to import. 2. Have the Veterinary Service write to you the veterinary import and quarantine conditions, or consent to quarantine at your home. Send veterinary conditions to breder. 3. Arrange with the breder air transport from and to where. 4. Conditions of the airline for the transport of animals and send to the breder. 5. Arrange transportation from the airport to your home. and at the end I wish you many nice moments with breeding a new predator.
I i know of a prarie gyr that knocked out people ! The owner John Hitchmough tryied to trade her for one of my Sakers ! Nice big Falcon she was - shure glad i dit not do the trade - i found out later John was charged and had to pay for the guys front teeth -he fell on his face after being knocked out by the Gyr Prarie . She would of been a great goose falcon .
My female imprint was/is a pain in the ass. I agree they're not a good entry falcon. It was my first falcon and first imprint in one awful little package.
Fantastic, thanks for following up with more "intro to" vids. Any idea why it was decided that the government should intervene with the natural crossing? Could there be any benefit to this at all?
John Grove that was my question the only thing I can think of is that maybe something like that had happened before and the new hybrids pushed their genetic ancestors out of the picture who knows
Is there a plan to make video about saker (altai) falcon? Are those even suitable for anything but dry climate? I can't find much on them online. Like nobody in Europe and USA fly those except like hybrid.
so I'm studying for the falconry exam in Europe but because your videos are the best on the topic due to your vast knowledge, I keep watching only them. Soo now I know all about the species you have over there but next to nothing about our typical species (f.ex we don't have prairie falcons at all, nor red-tailed hawks, that get mentioned a lot typically by American channels, as do other hawks that we don't have at all, they are not even mentioned in our scripts to study) haha 😫 can you move please? haha ✈️🌍😅 but seriously, thanks for the info!
Hi! I had a question. just out of curiosity, which falcon is best for taking bigger prey maybe such as rabbits? I would assume gyrfalcon but wanted your input!
Thanks for a nicely don video. But I started during the time when you could not leagly get per. and praies was it. So a lot of us had one and we got thru it. Breading was just starting. But as one other said talk about cross breeders, I would like to know more. And you state you like a setting tele. system ( never had one due to cost) please give your views. Thanks G1 Texas. #19 retired 71 yrs old started in LA Cal. ( saw condors in the wild before banding) and few falconers laws. Was fun for us to get out doors and chase the homing pigeon guys. (They won most of the time.) (city kids) old club name “wing and claw” by
Casey Everett I will try to do one today or tomorrow. With being in quarantine, I am limited on what I can go out and film, so it will have to rely heavily on photos, but perhaps that is okay.
I enjoy your videos they are very informational. I was wondering if I could request a video on identifying a passage bird. Particularly interested in the Prairie Falcon and Kestrel, and Coopers. Thanks
Hey Ben, so why were the government/s concerned with there being hybrid peregrine and prairie falcons? Why were the offspring destroyed? I can’t fathom
Dad Gummit it seems very strange to me as well. A couple of them were given to zoos, but most were just destroyed. Seems crazy, but it was just the thinking of the time.
Ben, after you explained that nature took over and made a hybrid species, which the government tried to control, I now understand why we have a mix of these birds here near Radway, Alberta.
Greetings. Any suggestions on the ability to fly prairie falcons from the fist? My hunting areas are small, so I'm hoping to fly from the fist more than height.
Wikipedia “falconry” entry blames falconers for losing their birds in non native places like Harris’s in Britain and that in Utah captive bred Prairie falcon accidentally got out and bred with wild Peregrine because it was fostered by a peregrines.The whole falconry entry needs editing! I feel is bias :(
Wikipedia isn't the best place you want to use as a source. The problem with this argument is you'd have to have receptive wild birds to pair off with. These other wild birds are extremely unlikely to be parent reared by a hybridized pair.
@@LordDaymien I totally agree. You make my point. The Wikipedia page is erroneous and I was pointing out there IS a problem with the argument on the falconry page and needs editing (since people still get their information, sadly, from Wikipedia). I am a passionate falconry advocate..
I'm not one to argue but in this country they say there's only one kestrel i disagree i think there's two i think merlin is the second kestrel since i'm stretching myself out i think prairie falcons is the third kestrel which you can deny because they don't have the sexual dimorphism maryland's have sexual dimorphinism and their little they don't hover they probably could and like european kestrels common kestrels they have sex with him orphanism and they hover so there's levels of that but i think they're in the same family and i believe they're linked together from karma i believe in evolution tabular frog and i think when you die it works itself out the process with humans is different than animals and i believe in complacency and i live that way with that belief and i believe there's life before earth and earth will grow and develop and finish growing and if you're alive you've been alive forever there's no beginning an end to that with that belief i believe perry falcons merlin's and a kestrels are all linked together from foreverness and i believe for original sucks are the third eagle and i think these classifications are impossible because of competitiveness of classifications for different reasons from biology from books and i'm not asking people to rearrange their knowledge or believe in what i do but to me freaking socks are the third eagle does that mean golden eagles are like something that i claim not at all for different reasons some golden eagles don't have a problem with me they do make your hair suck hybrid which is a large harris hawk and i believe the earth and egg and things are evolving it and everyone has eternal life and everyone's earning wings and things of that nature but everyone lives forever and everyone's trying to self improve i don't think people pass things on to the next generation i think they're selfish and they pass things on to themselves and you reincarnate into yourself and that refreshes with the turks not so if you have a better threshold for that type of thinking that isn't possible for a lot of other people for things the earth does to people's way more comfortable to accept this final because that's what it looks like and you got to stretch your ass bibles and teachings like that are hiding places from the truth that smothers you or hiding place from the sky okay and discomfort to not enjoying a meal not enjoying certain things it's harder can be done and i don't expect people to live in discomfort to agree with me nor do i violate people's right to passage or take away their moment of clarity with oh my god life goes on forever and i've been worried for nothing everyone has a different ride of passage and reasons why they think so and they're pretty healthy and don't seem too worried about things and i place the the frog hawk eagle and the harris hawks are linked together from reasons that i've discovered on a personal study and that makes sense to me and i don't have a job or a book written you know when i see other people's point of views and that's what works for you and i don't have a problem with it i'm going to write a book called a thugs manual that mentions falcon throughout it the sport it's basically a book on how to be graffiti artist that some people might find interesting or not even bother reading i own a publishing company i really do and like i can write a book and i don't have it in me to write another book about jess's or equipment or basic manning so like that ᝰ that's been done and said i can offer opinions you find out we already know and then you're just a weird person that can't be around normal people you know i can go to sinners and i can go to falconer centers and if you need to think that bridge miss hawk is a booty-o the largest video you like lantern falcons and they've done some for union like the eye of horus in egypt things like that then that's impressive to me as well but if you get rubbed wrong by them type of people are you still going to like leonard falcons they're impressive they're pretty and they're top to food chain and all that egyptian stuff interesting i'll believe that have a religion label are true and the same thing okay people don't like me why because i'm a punk even today i got the prairie falcon i needed to pay pee i had k kestrel and i got the you you know from the frog hawk eagle punk link invent breakdown simplicity to complicatedness and that's how i did and i'll link these birds in a group that holds water and makes sense i don't know how many other people do that and you can try make sense to say i survived this way and it's got me amuse a house in a couple cars against all odds in a bible belt or mormon temple was constructed okay and i have my reasons why i think life's eternal that i don't share with other people and i will meet you instead of telling you weird s*** i've been through we can make a new experience together and people are good for you and you that happened i believe you good for you you're like jesus never mind that s*** we'll get together dude and we'll make a new experience and stuff and i'll have you a believer and i'll be with some weird s*** probably and i'll just reinforce what you already know so i don't like expect people to appreciate things i've been through and i took the food chain birds i think about that everyday i have a harris hawk i use falcon for what it's for and i am somewhat of a biologist orthanologist birdwatcher and i survive learning secrets that no one cares about that are deadly i can confirm what you already know and you're going with that that's what works in your psyche your game that's you sitting in your favorite chair and you have a formula going awesome use it and i'll put birds in my categories and reasons why they have different colors and their role in nature and went the earth is and i'm not going to get all offended and crazy and s*** if you think the fridge is hot has been missed categorize so you say is it a hawk or an eagle and you think f hawk is it really an eagle and you keep saying that until you think hawk eagle and then it's not misclassified or something's probably are it's incomplete i don't think you're reading cue cards i think you're an educator and you're intelligent and you're done your homework and you're a book writer and you want to be a falconer forever at a bird show and that i got in trouble they blamed me for it being there and yellowstone park they had a sacred falcon that lower fired outside of prairie falcon they ended up went up to a spec and dive and hit a lower a hit the lower and knock the chicken bone in half there was a sacred falcon there and at lure flight nicely a lantern falcon i think it wasn't a saker pretty sure it was a lantern i'm not sure that torpedoed low to the ground it was a desert falcon and i came with his lantern or lugger i'm pretty sure the lantern and a falcon you like lantern falcons i don't know if it by the sacred falcon is yours you feel strong about atlanta falcons you find it it's yours
You know what I want I wanna see if you can get a sooty falcon to weight on and stoop there wings are very long and they don't stoop they dart and they catch birds no PRoblem level flights are impressive I was shown one in possession of serouse grouse hunters and is that a secret there speed to much of something has the same affect as not haveing enough there feet don't look punchy I see other soldiers that look like they hit harder but they don't are sooty fast it man's black person in Britain slang and it was put my attention out boredom ive thought the fastest I wonder if there in Truth in that or was blocked from prairie for showing intrrest.
Okay my sponsor told me he knows what prairie falcon diaries are but you can just walk up to the cliff and reach up and get out the nest which is a lie makes an inaccessible i obviously break in the cars and still f****** speakers and CD players and stuff and he told me that his client and equipment was stolen if i could get it back from her if i did it yes four daughters and if you want to do falcon we have to give up dating because the girls don't like to date falconers he said he knew a goshawk that his eyes and completely turn red and stopped right in the middle keeps you from being an adult completely in juvenile he said he'd go to mustache cuz the virgin is hot bit his lip and he wears a mustache cover up the scar and his girlfriend at the time took his fridge in his heart to a field and let it go cuz she didn't like it he showed me a perfectly trained crave falcon verifying hit a pigeon he took me out again with the peregrine and it was socialized wrong and he said later if i can put his head behind his head wing and died going to turn me into what i am you know that's my sponsor he turned in steve children killing a duck out of season and was an enemy with him so he's competitive so he don't start doing that when he sees me he's already doing it he had his own a little page going where he had drawings and stuff of jesse's and terms and s*** that i put in plastic laminated s*** and he had lists of breeders in the area and steve gender and parentheses said for ridiculous prices and that mess that's a eminem sounds like a duck when he wraps i sit back with this package no limit soldiers for master p is no limit north towards limited that don't sell harris hawk somewhere so that's a bummer and i'm a soldier that can date my environments ruin cuz my mom's f****** dad that bedtime word in prison warden and s*** and made sure to f****** blacks are f****** on my females when i got here the mormon temples connected to the AT&t building in nashville connect to the trade centers and they're down my friend was a big-time retail guy took him on steve was breaking his trap and showed his fingers saying i'm a red tail and he's yelling at me i'm a red tail i'm not making fun of steve last time i seen him he was at my door to birdie trapped with like a pretty falcon hit it i'm as real sponsored he bypassed me some f** and s*** that you said Baskin-Robbins is his hobby and he was just using him to block me and s*** in my room and show it a peregrine prairie that i almost bought for 300 bucks i loaned my dad 300 bucks to fix the car and s*** didn't pay me back and f****** the peregrine perry only cost 300 bucks back then even cheaper than a harris hawk and people don't like prairie falcons cuz i have a juvenile retail plumage and i don't turn into a p**** the red tail just like my friend at my doorstep that show me his red toe that clamp you roll this f****** car cuz she only KO and s*** but i pray for me pissed off at a bird show and i've seen prairie falcons fly up on me in the field all kind of s*** i've seen one peregrine in a while too actually and i have been around prairie falcon the bird shows and my sponsor had when i first met him so my dad he thought he was sponsoring my dad he ended up sponsoring me like that i only met him twice or three times and stuff when i moved here he sent paperwork for my dad give him a general license probably didn't remember too much of them so we could be my sponsor and my dad ended up sponsoring me and maybe it wasn't super why it's good enough maybe i did pretend to be him on the phone and get birds and show up to your prairies and one peregrine and whatever maybe fake IDs are involved you like that ships to costa rica and faking your death resurrections chill like that you know what i'm saying paranormal activity attract crystals if i could red tails i beat probation whenever that is the keys i got f****** i got him from a kestrel on top of the food chain all my fantasies practical i don't overdo it and be a gamer and shame turn all kinds of weird s*** hawk say everyone hybrids with hair socks and frictionless hair socks very splitting too. That's a bird i used to be and the gap it left me vision from hood and s*** that's one more deadly than anything and shall drop you and s*** with f****** hood i cut the eyes out of it and s*** so it can't be hooded and killed north canoeing my soldiers he mentioned racials issues and disabilities and s*** so we don't respond to presidents you tried to piss people off for trump and s*** and get your boat to get rid of trump or to conflict against trump and s*** getting it pissed off and vote for fighting to get rid of trump and s*** he has no f****** jurisdiction whatsoever over the front line and i didn't if hillary clinton would have won i probably would have voted her husband used to be president she sent her new york s*** going on in the f****** middle east and i think she would have f****** been the proper president i gave up on presidents after she lost she didn't almost win i mean she almost won she didn't but barely lost but she's still lost dude and that's an incompetent f****** fat when a goddamn money that declares bankruptcy every time he thinks a little money cuz he's f*** it doesn't have a thing and people voted for themselves okay they voted for a period or a teen with not a felon i have a f****** phone and their wife's a russian and ship that ain't f****** mexican and still foreign and s*** like that and killed all her friends and s*** and that everyone is boating for himself second president
They say the pergrine falcon is the fastest bird on the planet the prarie is faster than prarie not compleatley true the prarie falcon is faster than sub species like antum tundra but the peals pergrine mantains fastest it's weight and wing is the 240 miles hours than you the 200 hundred miles an hour that's antum ok and prarie is about to 220 and peals pergrine reaches the 240 miles an it's biggest and alout people that don't like the peals claim nasty to hard to work with becuse it's meaner peals is connected to Harris hawks I'm sure the exsact reason and the gos and Harris compitive world people like the antum pergrin and dislike the peals the american kestrel also connected to peals and that your thing thats going on.
Working a American kestrel leads to prarie falcon it can Nick name you Merlin but even the wizerd merlin isnt the falcon ok nuns like Merlins birds for that reason if being a austringer Harris hybrids and switches the kestrel and prarie don't give you falcon switch a hawk falcon hybrid is inposable ok it give a hawk mask of oplomado it's mask and is important.
American kestrles if you spedailise in them there for size gram for gram have the strongest feet and bite it'svtyoe if figure the potral officers try to use that ok I'm stronger than average from American kestrles one thing I've got since of prarie falcons have drawn that streanghth from American kestrels for reasons I guess they have similar face malar stripe prairie falcons high strung even considered vilent and thjnk that's why and good bird for a american kestrel is prarie falcon as you older prarie falcon you should naturally admire and a America kestrel will you know that.
Ok pergrines are the fastest bird in the world becuse there not to big and not to small and prairie falcons are the same but wings are slightly less long and think that a compitive edge to be faster the fact life that to much of something causes a effect of not enough enough like to calsuim in your deit can make for weak bones ok so long wings is speed like sooty falcon to long and is slow ok sooty means in brittan slang black person and Tracy averie I was turned sooty and my ideinty was given to a berrnet named Buckner just to block I can't black and that scared the other kids like you rebirth in California a black person you i resemble Ice cube ok I passed that test at everie was sooty falcon in mews in the back and I was talked about how ausome it is and how it's sevrole shades of grey and i sent to Nashville sooty I look up steave Buckner and on face book on his page his favright hobby was to eat at basken Robens Ice cream ok so his was just a falconer to block I'm huspanic Falco mexiconus has some to do with it my falcon antum pergrine steave chindrens I volteered at the averie and walked in on steave with melanistic red tail and it started lungeing at me named captin and steave was pist he said this bird hates dark cimolicated people and this hawk would be alover you the red tail was put in a box high in tree and opened and the first bird show i seen it sat there and screamed and steave exsolained that his territorial call then instead of flying down to him it flys strait over the the bird show building over the bold eagle building ok and you look at and stoop from the tree strait down and disaoears behind the building leaveing to your amaginatiin what Just happens on the red tail can since that your future falconer and it's trained to do that than steave later says it knocked the bold eagle off the nest and national bird is knocked off you then later you go to show again and the this time comes out the box and rakes the ground and you sprung on that red tail for your first apreintice bird and you want a dark phase red tail and then exsbits there dark phase swasions hawks with no bib and the golden eagle is cooler nexst to the bold eagle exsibet and that further knocks out of the goverment ok then there's a rumor some one broke in and tore apart a golden eagle ok and you want a Sponcer so bad you rake leaves ok and the red tail raked the ground ok then he says later it might get you discount on pergrine in begining of the bird show a Harris comes from the side around to back a fly by right then fuck the red tail that's the bird I want and the bird I have now ok then at the end they show massive golden eagle and your fly across the bird show and land and that suppost to make you forget about the Harris hawk and when your trapping darkers better from the red tail ok and you got you and this done to connected delinquents in Utah it's test and if you pass it you get to be master falconer forever in Utah and your sent sooty to tenesee to fight in holy war based on Mormonism it's war look bill Clinton d Monica Lewinsky that captian millistic red tail knocking a bold eagle off the nest ok I got base from hip hop descises and it's goverment test and I passed it the building are down alout stuff ok the hardest part is holding on to memories when family and friends are trying to rob you becuse your makeing money and things are working out for staying the same with your mental health being attacked and envy and remembering things you need to rember that life is meaningful and one time Peroid when there life's are pointless haveing no freinds or family but it will pay off and the path is clear but it's dispointing this gonna pay off and luck is gone and family is useless they getting old and bitter and out radged there life's is pointless they can't think out side the box and there jelouse to the point there useless and they are not happy about the conspiracy and they try to there best to lie to make bad things happen to me and it's hard but it will pay off thug life injoy your phones.
That's a missing falcon in yellowstone park i think jackson hole there was a hotel and they had a field that they corralled cows and did a bird so there do name dixon from centerville utah got in trouble cuz he had all these falcons in his yard and they pinned it on me and i'm barely an apprentice and i got in trouble for it and they they didn't find and there were several falcons peregrine harris hawk red tail and secret falcon atlanta falcon is one of my tidbits in life that's so my bird show fly other people's birds that's my bird show there is a few hybrids there some sort of hybrid with a cheerful i'm not sure silver there wasn't a white one a dude from europe was there and the white girls bringing him beer and he said something about being a f*** the jerry falcon went on a roof when it come down heeled hoe when it came dow the prairie falcon went up to a spec not straight down on angle and it came in and it raked around sight and hit that was disturbed show the sacred falcon then impressive and he'll put it by your head you can take a picture of a sacred falcon flying right to you okay and it's a bird too the dude doing it when i was his i was about 15 years old claimed he was a boxer from boxing camp he had features and what he would do he'd take a bird and he put your head down and he'd make the bird bait the flap its wings and he told people the bird's petting you stuff like that and he'd walk around town my dad is playing in his band there there's falconers walking inviting people to a bird show that's how i met him i hung out with him his ex-wife came for with divorce papers we went to see a movie jurassic park later i seen my new type of galleria with his kids again i sat down like we were in jackson whole. The school was going to give me credit if i go back to that bird show and work high school credit and i sat down with them and i was dressed i car dressed in utah at the time i said bye to the dude i don't even remember his name cuz he never told me and i hung out with them early in the morning and hang out with him for a day or two and i took money why people came to the bird show and a horse was behind us at farted real loud and a dude said wow that was loud i was buying a ticket to the bird show he said you can make equipment you can do this at a cool airplane with the head of spray with a spray s*** and they had a you know hoods and stuff they make a genghis khan story about straw people with meat on their eyes okay in jackson hole starting to thunder and your hair would stand up from electric in the air from thunderstorms i hopped over the fence to do something and he asked me is your right hand in your left hand just as coordinated okay tough kid falconer so if i can box and i said yes he had features where you could punch him and it they wouldn't cut he told me a story that he would take his daughter out or not in the back and in a back thing and run around peregrine i'll never meet him again i doubt it and the people i mean in life i briefly meet them and i never know if they're lying or there's any truth in it and i have to send their lying until for some reason they ain't they tell me what they want me to think of them you never know when someone's lying in one thing i've learned in life when you know you're on a path and it's not steady stable people lie a lot and that's just what they want you to think and i think it and i think people are liars because they are but it's still learning experience that dude's probably never work in a boxing camp is probably a fantasy and he'll take a bird and like put your head by it and then move his glove so it pats you on the head and it sounded like a horrible lie and he knew how to lower fly a sacred falcon he knew how to let a prairie falcon hit a lure anything yellowstone park and i went to the gallery and see him he's from utah and that's the end
