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Sunday, November 6th, 2011
(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 [...]
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Sunday, October 16th, 2011
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 [...]
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Friday, October 7th, 2011
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 [...]
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Monday, July 18th, 2011
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.
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Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
After few month waiting, it seem like the gabar will never come….
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Sunday, April 24th, 2011
Two month have passed… I still waiting for the exporter to collect the bird. He mention that it is difficult to get the bird as it moved alone and very difficult to catch. He promise to get back to me on 24th April… which is today. Let see if I will able to get any [...]
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Friday, January 28th, 2011
My Gabar Goshawk import project seem to run smoothly (well, there are few bump here and there, but it is still progress) I am actually very happy with the progress of this. I make payment amount USD300 to the exporter to confirm booking of 8 head of Gabar Goshawk after getting the export CITES from [...]
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Saturday, October 23rd, 2010
Yesterday when I am driving (on the way to an appointment) I ‘think’ I saw a sparrowhawk. If it is correct, then this one will be my first sight of sparrow hawk this season in this area. * photo is from birdskorea.org I didn’t take the photo by myself. Since I am on my way [...]
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Thursday, September 30th, 2010
I received reply from my local veterinary department for importation of the african hawk eagle. Well, it is not a good news… my application was rejected. Therefore, I will need to wait for some other time to get a chance to get the species into my collection… hopefully I will have some budget in the [...]
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Friday, September 17th, 2010
I have contacted and exporter from west Africa and he send me a price list contain African Goshawk and Gabar Goshawk. The price he quote is very attractive and I feel keen to it. However, since my budget is very small and I also thinking of getting the african hawk eagle, it make me a [...]
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