Which Bird is Best for Falconry?! HARRIS' HAWK, REDTAIL HAWK OR GOSHAWK? Interviewing Falconers 

How do you catch them

@@krypticgaming9071 T-shirt cannon full of ground beef.

Best story we’ve heard today!

Can you explain please,your Comment does not make any sense whatsoever!!!

@@waynekieft4952 If you decide on haris hawk, it's fine. But not because it is for beginners. Because after a few years you will already have experience with falconry, weight control and you will not be a "beginner". Then what about haris hawk? Therefore, start with the bird that you prefer and you also have the opportunity to hunt with it. So after training it, you will enjoy hunting for a long time. And you don't change the bird just because you're already experienced. Merry Christmas.

@jantirpak7902 Disagree! For instance, I wouldn't give a beginner a Goshawk as a first bird!!!For alot of reasons!! i've witnessed many a good falconer loosing their hair and going bald whilst hunting with a Gos ,especially for the first couple of years! There will always be certain birds that are better for the beginner and that's a fact! Anyway hope you have a great Christmas and a great 2024

@@waynekieft4952 Good day. You are absolutely right, there are situations where gos is problematic. I would definitely not recommend gos imprint to a falconer without experience. It's about following the principles of training. But if the beginner has a master falconer with experience with gos. This way he will avoid a lot of problems and the gos will make him happy for many years. But if someone prefers haris hawk then let him get it. If falco tinunculus then again his. I certainly do not recommend a golden eagle or a gyrfalcon to a beginner. They are raptors that remember individual mistakes of the falconer for a very long time. And then there is a huge problem. You may not agree with me, which is understandable, but if someone likes a species of predator. Then let him do what he loves. He will perform the glassmaking with more love. How should he have a predator he doesn't prefer and keep dreaming about another predator. From the bottom of my heart, I wish you beautiful falconry experiences

Is it possible to start doing falconry while in college?

A R I wonder this too but I doubt it; such a time and money commitment

You can’t knock a Patterdale!

With an AWFUL LOT of time and effort, I’ve known a friend to catch moorhen and small rabbits regularly

@@TerraHistoria6 thanks for your help and time

It was imported from Belgium but a guy in the UK, Wayne Margereson also breeds them!

@@TerraHistoria6 thanks. I know about Waynes cracking birds. Problem is transportation to Spain is quite expensive.

As a rule, I don't agree that the bigger birds of prey are faster, but I do agree that on average the female of the same species are generally faster. But as it happens, I have a peregrine male that is on a smaller side (525 grams hunting weight), that is faster than any female I have seen! That little falcon is coming to the lure in a strait line few inches above the ground at speeds over 100 km/h in no wind conditions, and he is doing that after only 4 training days and the break of one year from flying! He is also able to go close to 200 km/h in a dive from a very low pitch of only 160 meters. No eagle, RT, HH, or goshawk I have seen, or measured the speed can even come close to that level of performance under the same conditions, and if we compare the passage RT with the passage Goshawk, there is no contest, the Goshawk will leave the RT in a dust! I have measured my female Goshawk acceleration from 0-70 km/h, and she did it in 1,3 sec and traveled only 25 meters in the process. And the funny thing, she did that on her second hunting day after a break of one year from flying! If we talk about pure performance, and success in hunting the fur and feathers, the Goshawk is far ahead of the RT and HH, and it is the most versatile bird of prey.

To be honest, unless you have permission relatively locally to fly a BOP in blocks of countryside I really wouldn’t recommend keeping any BOPS really

Goshawk is certainly the fastest of the three, but you have probably mixed something up, because there is no bird on earth that can fly 195 km/h in horizontal active flight! I have very fast goshawks, faster than average, and their top speed in level flight without the help of the wind is on average around 70 km/h, and going little over 80 km/h in some instances. The only bird of prey that I have measured above 100 km/h were my peregrine falcons, and I do all measurements with Marshall GPS, strictly leveled with no downward angle and taking the wind speed in to account!

@@Semendrija123 Surely you are right if you are measuring speed I heard it on the internet (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pU_k0zYvDk8.html at 1:46 min.) And that may not be true. I am a falconer and also a breeder of carrier pigeons for the race. I saw a goshawk catch a carrier pigeon. The carrier pigeon flies 100 - 120 km / h. The wild goshawk took off from a tree and the pigeon flew to the birdhouse. Goshawk had a loss of 4 m, but after 120 m he caught a pigeon. That's why I think he flew faster than a carrier pigeon racer. Have a nice day and many falconry experiences.

@@jantirpak7902 thanks! Those internet videos are just for fun and they have little scientific value, but wild goshawks are faster than falconry goshawks, and I’m pretty sure they can fly in the region of 100 km/h on shorter distances. There are no accurate speed measurements for the racing pigeons other than the time they need to travel certain distance, but the wind is determining factor, and also the height at which the birds fly because the wind speed is exponentially increasing with the height increase, and the real speed at which the pigeons can fly is not known. But I have little doubt that good racing pigeons can fly 100 km/h or even more! I have female peregrines that can fly 119 km/h in no wind conditions close to the ground, but if they had tail wind of about 30 km/h the GPS would show almost 150 km/h, and if they had head wind, the GPS would show around 90 km/h. There are also falcon-pigeon competitions in the Middle East, and in level flight the peregrines are usually faster than pigeons, but pigeons are trying to out climb and out maneuver the falcon, and in most cases they succeed 😉 All the best my friend, cheers 🍻

@@Semendrija123 is the Goshawk much faster at accelerating up to top speed than a peregrine?

@@daveyboy6985 yes, especially initial acceleration. I have measured my female going from 0-70 km/h in just 1,3 seconds. This is simply not possible for the peregrine, but past that initial acceleration and the peregrine is taking over with the speed. Two of my falconer colleagues had a misfortune two release by accident both, the goshawk and the falcon at the same prey. Of the fist the goshawk had advantage in the first 50 meters, and by the hundred or so meters, the falcon overtook the goshawk and grabbed it by the head. Unfortunately the goshawk didn't make it. On the other hand, in flight acceleration is impressive with the peregrine. The peregrine can cruise at moderate speed, and the moment the prey is flushed, peregrine can accelerate at incredible pace, even faster than goshawk!

It may be worth asking more advice on the ‘falconry hub’ Facebook group as it has members from all over the world!

@@TerraHistoria6 thank you very much!

Flaming Rapz, if I can advise you, contact the IAF have their site. There, someone could advise you or put in touch with a falconer (if not India then maybe Pakistan.) Since falconry is listed in UNESCO as a cultural heritage of all mankind. I suppose it can be solved somehow. Probably with this registration in UNESCO, you could go to your offices to give you consent to keep a predator for falconry purposes. (There are Indian hoods on birds of prey, so I guess in India, there was sometimes falconry) In all countries, falconry is a form of hunting, see these regulations in your country. (If it's not forbidden there? Then it is allowed) All countries are allowed to keep protected animals under certain conditions and this is one of the possible ways. I do not know whether India has ratified the CITES international convention.

@@jantirpak7902 thank you so much!

If you have a good excuse for not being able to fly your hawk 5 days a week, why take offence? "If the cap fits wear it" my mother used to say.