Thanks for your insightful videos. Could you please also discuss the following topic in your upcoming video on Lanner Falcon? "Lanner Falcon as a lure or robot falconry bird." Many thanks for considering my request.

I still like the story about the rebirth as an allegory, the principle of the allegory is a very true one. I appreciate knowing the real science behind eagles and am thankful for your video so I don't sound like an idiot to those who actually know about eagles. If I tell the story again I will be telling it as an allegory. thank you so much. Stay strong and don't be afraid to smash your face against a rock if that is what it takes to change your life and become the person you were meant to be. blessings everyone.

I looked for migrating Merlins around the DFW area for 10 years but never saw any!!! This area does support a breeding population of Mississippi Kites however, that actually nest in suburban neighborhoods and live amicably with humans sharing their spaces in back yards. No dive bombing of humans in close proximity to their nests.

I know what I hear in the morning now!

The u look so poofy got it being like watchu talking a bout? I ain’t poofy

He proud himself ❤😂

I always enjoy your videos, Ben.

I hope its new specie!

Looked like golden eagle!

Real?

My falconry books are in storage, so this is from memory. Hobbies were used to 'dare' larks. This meant the Hobby waited on and the larks were covered in a net. Also, have not come across any records of Hobby being used effectively to catch quarry directly. In his book, 'As the falcon her bells', Glasier mentions having a Hobby but I do not believe he caught anything. I have flown one without success and have known of others with better experience with small falcons having the same. I would be interested if anyone has contrary information.

Ben; we have kestrels in our area, and I almost never see them in trees, mostly on the wing, and they hover and "kite" a lot... maybe we don't see them in trees because of size, or colouration, but I think we've only seen them perched maybe twice in 4 years.

查了一下， 在中国称作 燕隼 。很漂亮的毛色和图案， 我觉得比美洲红隼的斑纹更好看（欧亚红隼也很好看，但飞得太慢）

Great video Ben thank you. Gerald was my sponsor when I was a young apprentice. I spent many hours flying with him and talking to him. He would sell me mice and what not to my kestrels. We spent much time flying prairie falcons on his pigeons up on the Utah county bench where micron and a million houses are now. I went to a lot of the sky trials. Pat Shane was my high school health teacher and we played dungeons and dragons after school. I always looked up to him and Ricardo. I later took to flying coopers hawks on pheasants in the Utah lake lake shore area. I found good success doing so. I was deeply saddened by Geralds passing. I left falcony hoping to return someday. Thanks for bringing up great memories for me!!

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With your inspiration, I have been reclassifying raptors, renaming them, and giving the concept of the terms “hawk” “eagle” and “falcon”, with splitting the families apart, specifically the ones where I live in Massachusetts. I’m finishing up the buzzard-like raptors, then go to the true hawks, owls, and falcon-like birds. Based on my analysis, I’m trying to call members of the falcon family “falconids” while merlins are to be called hobbies, and only diving falcons like the peregrine are to be called falcons or “true falcons”. Do you know is this accurate or are the species genetically related?

Hey Ben! Have you ever flown or worked with a Boneli’s eagle?

Although I am subscribed to the channel, you never saw a hobby and you are absolutely wrong about hobby power. Boyancy is not correlate (positively or negatively) with power. You have no idea what is see a hobby flying for birds in wild.

ITS NOT A CHICKEN SON...QUIT PETTIN IT...

It's a beautiful bird, even his face is beautiful.

the "Persian Cat" of falcons?

What a beautiful bird! 🦅

How illegal is this without a license lol

Soothing and confident, whenever I hear a owl, I know, everything will be all right.

The Eagle: make it sharp

I never would have found your site if I weren't looking for information on 1/ what birds of prey eat in captivity 2/ how to prepare the meal - or not 3/ the psychology of the person who had birds of prey. This was because of a video i just watched by Caroline Kennedy talking about her cousin who would put the baby chicks and mice in a blender before feeding them to his pets. So...What info can you give me on any of this? I want to remove any bias in my thinking. I do really appreciate this video....I learned a lot and maybe will just watch birds a lot more closely.

It would be great if you could make a video on yarak specifically.

wonder how the owl would sound if it were free

Need a hug. ❤😂

SOOOOOOOOOOO CUTE ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

👋. Is there a flavor that these predators dislike? 🙏🙏🙏

Bat falcon 🙂

Elf Owl…! thank you for the excellent video, Ben. I am a Falconer in Washington state and have trained five GHO’s. Have you successfully taken game with your GHO’s and Barreds? My intention was to write a book “The GreatHorned Owl and her falconry,’ however I lack the kind of hunting success that I would like to have before feeling competent to write such a publication. There is a great commitment involved in pulling an imprint, GHO and raising it through the second hunting season. It is so much faster and easier to trap a passage red tail and achieve hunting success in only a few weeks. Before I can recommend the amount of commitment that it takes to have an owl that is useful as a falconry bird, I would like to have one that I can say is as good as a red tail or gos. Do you think this is possible?

Elf Owl…! thank you for the excellent video, Ben. I am a Falconer in Washington state and have trained five GHO’s. Have you successfully taken game with your GHO’s and Barreds? My intention was to write a book “The GreatHorned Owl and her falconry,’ however I lack the kind of hunting success that I would like to have before feeling competent to write such a publication. There is a great commitment involved in pulling an imprint, GHO and raising it through the second hunting season. It is so much faster and easier to trap a passage red tail and achieve hunting success in only a few weeks. Before I can recommend the amount of commitment that it takes to have an owl that is useful as a falconry bird, I would like to have one that I can say is as good as a red tail or gos. Do you think this is possible?

They go 240 a kestrel AK can top that like golf ball is faster than a base ball but they don't value that it's hard to get a kestrel to ho sonic they go up about 100 ft there feet hit that hard will brake the pergrine hybrid they hit ducks I've kestrels dive through a flock of starling going pergrine speed it nice after noon on my bike hover about 500ft up and dive it's hitting those top speeds for reason a ferrginouse hawk can those speeds to I think jelouse fits give the golden the speed.

Maybe it’s false, but it’s not stupid. Well maybe logically it’s stupid lol but it’s a dope story that some people have used for personal growth. You ruined it lol

Falconry is such a closed, community choking on tradition and conservatism, not the government or the desire of many to hunt with raptors. Thankfully, I am beyond my Apprenticeship and off on my own like so many others. Thankfully, as well, it has stayed small so that we don't have millions of pet owners into falconry. The pet industry and capitalism has ruined the canine world and raised veterinary costs.

Do you have any info about the oversized head of a Prairie falcon, and the eyes being so large in proportion the the head?

When it comes to animal family information videos I prefer all the information together in one video no matter how long the video. But you could also put the videos into suitable playlist in the most appropriate order.

It’s a genuine tragedy these beautiful birds have been lost to human greed. Depressing to think I would’ve seen these little guys flying around if not for our stupidity.

Ok I'm not trying to scare you but I was in desert storm ok they look but there not and can read strange letters like can English letters to them English letters are weird it dosnt make them smarter at all you meet peace person ok but in future you stick with the muslem faith if not muslem your nothing and taking to some that thinks he will forever and you don't that when death accures you wink out not consouse at all gone nothing ok in muslem they literty belive only muslems live forever through alie that there nothing and ale begin life I believe life always Ben there and all life is co eternal with God that God is you when evolveing and they don't they belive they live forever and you haft convert to Islam or you seize to exist that belive ruins them and understand you like lanners falcons is fine all falcons my favorite is American kestrel for personal resons second favright falcin is peals pergrine becuse peals pergrine like me so I like them back they like the sight me and to fly for me antume dosnt like me nor prarie my favright large falcon is the gyr pergrine black gyr it's pergrine and it's dusky and I really like those im not dandrousley compitive at all I belive harmony becuse I'm from Utah and over the years I've met middle easterns breivley and they do not like us and there females don't either and can since if they switch to my shit ok and gets them in trouble with muslems faith ok sometimes there wearing muslem close and you make a mistake say hi or flert like there American girl basic conversation and aprouching a female even incent is punishable more so aprouch empty handed and probley shouldnt be allowed to travel becuse of that there unprouchabje and hurus Egypt is that maybe a little different other than lanner are are cool and all I'm saying is be careful don't be friends with muslems becuse of those reasons because there strange you can probley pull it off use Utah recorses not new York ik saying it won't work for you but Utah has a defence of Mormon faith soldiers and thats better freind and you be careful but those people are deranged and female are beaten and it's sad maybe you can help them maybe a rich falconers ok to be freinds but there not nice people and there not sain and they can live women and men can home there genderly different than other types of people and there here where I'm at and there females are punks so be careful I mean if they buy book you wrote you cool I pakastain bells on my bird right now I didn't know id see them when younger no one told me about them and I believe marrage before intemecy to get married before you go on a first date is a good idea in my book now I'm all the voices in rap and Ben dateing black dudes checking out the money and that's sucks.

Love the video. I have a question. Is there any information you have in falconry in Greenland with gryfalcons or snowy owls?

Another fun, interesting video. I always wanted to know the difference between Prairie Falcon and Peregrine Falcon. Now I know from a falconry perspective as well as prey preference. And Gyr Falcons are so beautiful.

Another priceless video to watch! I have a question. I had a female goshawk 1200g from that i know grip strength of goshawks. I never had any of falcons exept an eurasian kestrel. I wonder, if they are comparable in sizes which one has a harder grip a goshawk or a gyrfalcon or maybe peale's falcon?

Can the next video be on Martial, Crowned and Harpy eagles?!

Almost like comparing a motorcycle to a semi truck 👍😝

Hunted any squirrels with it?

Uodate?

Bat Falcon. love the long format videos