After many week of manning, finally after 2 week, the new crested goshawk finally begin to jump to fist and later fly to fist. For me I always manning hawks inside the house after work (since I am not a full time bird trainer or falconer) so I only able to spent time about 1 [...]
If you follow my blog, few month back I get a Chinese Sparrowhawk from a friend (actually I am helping him to train the bird).. It was few month back… and I didn’t really train him much, just manning him…recently after I manned the new crested goshawk, I found that the chinese sparrowhawk become calmer!! [...]
After 9 days of manning finally the female crested goshawk jump to my fist. Since I got her, I did expect that it will take longer time to train her since I think she is a ‘handfeed bird’… Luckily she is not very vocal and seem like she is not food imprint or inheritage any [...]
Last week a friend, send a young female crested goshawk to me to train… the bird is still very young… my friends just bought it from someone… and the birds somehow seem like not really know how to eat yet!!! (She didnt grap the food with the feed… I guess the previous owner only give [...]
Recently I bought the “Practical Handbook of Falcon Husbandry and Medicine” … I think this is a very good book and every falconer or bird of prey enthusiast alike need to have it in their collection… This book provide lots of useful information… and very practical too! for example it will give information about the [...]
(Reuters) – Falcons, long used for hunting in the Middle East and a prized status symbol, are now being adapted for a more mundane problem: pest control. The appearance of gleaming steel and glass high-rise buildings in the Gulf emirates of Abu Dhabi and Dubai where only desert existed a few decades ago, coupled with [...]
Today, a friend sent a female Chinese sparrowhawk for me to manned. This bird was cough this season… and I guess it was the first in this season. It was some time that I didn’t manned or train sparrowhawk… hope this beautiful girl will turn out great… I just fit the jesses for her… still [...]
I have the privilege of training 3 different South East Asian Crested Goshawk this year. All of the hawk is not belong to me but belong to some other falconer friends. First hawk is an adult female passage bird. She was adult and have very bad condition when my friend get her (from some keeper [...]
The exporter revert to me mentioning that he have collect many gabar for me and should be able to send it to me in few more weeks. He sent me another CITES since the last CITES has expired. I will reapply the import CITES from my side and hopefully everything will go smoothly.
After few month waiting, it seem like the gabar will never come….