Falconry: Hunting falcons off the fist
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- In this falconry video, I discuss the topic of hunting falcons directly off the fist. Often falcons are flown from a pitch, where the falcon circles high above the falconer, waiting for quarry to be flushed out. This video instead explores training large falcons to pursue prey, hunted in direct pursuit flights. The video discusses the history of this style of falconry, including Arabian hunting with Saker falcons pursuing bustards. The video also explores which large falcon species do well with it, as well as a hybrid style of hunting from the fist that specifically favors lanner falcons and lanner falcon hybrids.
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Been waiting for this one! Large falcons working with sighthounds is what got me into falconry. The dogs like my two Salukis are as stunning to watch as the falcons.
I would definitely enjoy another video on this topic
Yes! If I can catch a prairie. That's the plan over my whippetxvisla
@@HoundsAndHawksawesome! Cool dog breed mix
Cowboy😊, I like the way you respect the bird, take so many factors into consideration. TY, Ben!🥰
I would love to see more on this. I'm trying to trap a male prairie right now for this exact style.
Same. Hardest bird I've ever tried to trap.
For those of us who don’t have the open acreage for “waiting on”, “off the fist” is our alternative, so please make more videos of this style of falconry. Saker and Aplomado videos would also be appreciated. Great job Ben.
Would love to see a video from you talking about lanner falcon hybrids and hunting styles with them!
Grate video I would like to see more on this topic please
A passage prairie off the fist has been a dream. Watching wild birds I have just always felt like they could do it. Idk I just love them
Hi Ben! Thank you very much for another great video.
I would absolutely like another video on this, please. I agree with you about how, waiting on is the greatest thing that a falcon can do, but I would like to try direct flight with a Barbary or a peregrine. Your experience would help me a lot to start on the right path.
Fantastic video! Would love an expansion on aplomado training and mindset, especially for hunting in pairs.
Love this. Great to hear about how it is/was done in the Middle East.
Each video you are more raptor like ! Next I expect feathers.
Handsome Goshawk!
What you think about the Ed Pitcher “technique“ (book “Flying of falcons”) starting with a “off the fist out of the hood” style for obtaining a very high pitch falcons. Many thanks (from Italy)
I have trained male peregrine to hunt of the fist, and then to hunt from waiting on in less than one month. The end result is the peregrine that can hunt from the fist, and from waiting on in the same day, multiple times a day.
Few times I had him flying from waiting on, and if the prey managed to slip and go for the cover and hide, I would just pick the falcon from the ground, and start searching for the hidden prey "goshawk style". When the prey is flushed again, the peregrine would go after it the same as goshawk would, with an advantage of having higher top speed in level flight and much bigger stamina. The obvious advantage goshawk has is initial acceleration in the first few seconds, but if you have an open ground, my bet is always on the peregrine!
The reason I have started to train the peregrine that way is the fact that in nature peregrines learn to hunt that way gradually, and they don't always use the stoop, on the contrary many subspecies don't use the stoop as the main hunting technique.
Fascinating topic, would love to see more.
Yes please do a video on aplomado falcons!
Do a video on the importance of a bird dog, thanks.
Great❤
A video on gyr vs saker please.
Hello, Loved the video. But you never made the video you said about why Swainson hawks are bad for falconry. I've been waiting on it.
Thank you.
I’m flying a gyr x saker off fist as persute and a gyr xbarb
I would like a follow up video as well. Also, if you could give a quick word about hunting off the shoulder. Is it just Hollywood hype or is it a real technique? I can't seem to find info on it whatsoever other than portrait shots at events. To my untrained eye it appears it might be useful to have both hands free when hunting.
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I fly a 1400g gyr off the fist on AZ jacks, rabbits, and pheasants. It’s challenging to teach, but with a lure machine its not too bad.
Interesting, Arctic hare is natural prey species of the Gyrfalcon so I thought that it would be rather easy to teach a Gyr to hunt of the fist?
I have a male peregrine with whom I hunt of the fist, and from waiting on, and one day he missed a pigeon from the stoop and landed on the field after futile chase. I decided to pick him up and to flush some quail or a pheasant on the foot while going back to the car with him on the fist waiting for something to pop up like a goshawk, and to my surprise I have flushed the big hare, and in a blink of an eye the small male peregrine was on it. In a fear I have pulled the lure to call him back, and luckily he decided that the lure is much easier to fight than a hare.
But what is interesting, he never saw the hare before, and I have never pull him a hare lure. If I did, I have no doubt that he would try to hold on to the hare. The process of him catching the hare was rater easy, but holding it would be challenging to say the least 😆
Having that experience with the male peregrine, I had no doubt that teaching a Gyr to go after the hare would be peace of cake.
The late Earlen Franklin From Sacramento California hunted this Style with a Irish wolfhound saluki cross and a Gyr saker falcon On large jack rabbit and coyotes very impressive hunt may he rest in peace and God bless America
@@ericsteinhauer3991 that could have been him
Hi Ben, I hope your feeling well, my ? Is how well do any of the pegrine hybrids do any cotton tails or jacks?
Can you hunt off the glove with gyr falcon, pererigrine falcon and a hybrid
Thanks for the content,please i would like to contact you in private concerning the falcon.Thanks Ben
Please Ben, do a video on the hunting styles of the Aplomodo Falcons, and their wack a doodle antics
Hi Ben! Thank you very much for another great video.
I would absolutely like another video on this, please. I agree with you about how, waiting on is the greatest thing that a falcon can do, but I would like to try direct flight with a Barbary or a peregrine. Your experience would help me a lot to start on the right path.
Please, a video or interview with a falconer who are training goshawk to soar and dive like a falcon. I would really enjoy it. The Goshawk is my favorite bird of prey.
Here you go:
ruclips.net/video/1LxHAAT71sM/видео.html
This is the closest you can get to watch the Goshawk hunting like the falcon.