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However, since my budget is very small and I also thinking of getting the african hawk eagle, it make me a bit confuse. By the way, I received another quotation for African hawk eagle… which is USD 4800 per head C&F my nearest airport. It seem like if we have money, there are lots of thing we can get..

Back to the African Goshawk, I proceed to send application letter to my local veterinary department. I am not very sure if currently my country have allowed import from Africa or not… if not, then no choice but I have to wait… until the bird flu is really over.

During checking out the species (African Goshawk), seem like they are very capable and willing bird. One of posting in international falconry forum mention that they can take a guinea fowl which weight more than a kilogram… even the hawk weight is not even half a kilogram! That is very impressive.

One more things is that this species seem like capable of catching up with the common mynah! There are lots of common mynah in my location and with this species, it would be a great outing for me.

Some may ask what is the different (hunting) capabilities between African Goshawk and Asian crested Goshawk… well, their size is about the same. I haven’t fly any African Goshawk, but I do fly Crested Goshawk. If African Goshawk is capable of getting all species that many falconer in Africa talk about, then the differences of hunting capabilities between them are large! (having said that, in some location like Taiwan, the Crested Goshawk is larger compared to Crested Goshawk in South East Asian) Crested Goshawk in South East Asian is smaller and the quarries that they take also smaller.

Crested Goshawk rarely able to get common mynah. The only way for them to get it is if the condition is very upperhand for them like the mynah is not ready, they are wet etc.

Well, lets hope I can get some African Goshawk in my collection… and you can hear more comment about the comparation.

Here is a video of hunting with Crested Goshawk:

Enjoy!

While here below is a video of a golden eagle taking out deer…