Falconry: The Eurasian Hobby

Eurasian hobbys are a unique species of falcon that is rarely talked about in falconry. In this falconry video I go into depth on this species. This video has been cut from a longer video where I discuss ALL the species of hobby falcons around the world. If you want to watch the full long hobby video you can find that here:
• Falconry: Hobby falcon...
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[@brianhaynes6718]

I always enjoy your videos, Ben.

[@jankool01]

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.

[@yvonnerogers6429]

👍🏻

[@lohikarhu734]

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.

[@MadCatMaddie]

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

[@wildhorse333]

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）

[@DaltonBaker-zu2mo]

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?

[@remyogun8270]

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

[@benwoodrufffalconry]

I have not. I worked a little with an African hawk eagle which used to be considered a subspecies. Both are incredible birds with all the potential in the world. Hope to someday fly one properly

[@lohikarhu734]

the "Persian Cat" of falcons?

[@lamaspacos]

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.

[@pepito-lab]

I got one Eurasian Hobby, and a friend had about three or four of them in different seasons. So, I totally agree with Ben's statement about their lack of power. All of these birds were well-trained and in nice flight conditions. No one of them could catch a pigeon-not even close to having success with it. Hobby will NEVER be able to hold the pigeon. However, I can't say the same about sparrowhawks or merlins. It's a perfect bird for fun. It has nice high flights and is swift, able to catch some casual small prey ONLY.

[@lamaspacos]

There is no bird of prey that show such striking differences between individuals and ages as the hobbies. First year it catch dragonglies and orher insects, and in fact has no power for chasing birds. However, with 2 or 3 years they hunt birds for their chicks, showing an amazing speed, equal with merlin and needs even more power in order to achieve that (because they have larger wings), analogously the swifs (which are the strongest fliers in level flight). Hobbies are naturally prepared to hunt from swifts to starlings. On the other hand, sparrowhawks are best to swallows, which have less speed but more agility. Their feet are far small for pigeons, in the wild they hunt only to the common swift size. Merlins in the wild rarely hunt a bird larger than a starling, and the same for sparrowhawks. (Of course, we don't consider woodpigeon hunted by sparrowhawks and merlins in cities, since these pigeons have no proper predators for their size and therefore should be compared to domestic birds.