Ferruginous Hawk Falconry

[@khaaleliilighntingcoronado9009]

I see hawks everyday here in West Texas. They are the TRUE RULERS OF THE SKY.

[@jasonkowalcyk5733]

Great video quality and commentary! Love the video!

[@timmccarthy3034]

I did that soar hunting method with my RTH........a passage wild pulled from a nest at 4 weeks....so no imprint....it worked for me...when she got too high, (REALLY HIGH) I called her down to the fist.......and I never lost her that way , although I was advised it was too risky....I enjoyed seeing here fly high, from a hill top launch.......to hunt the valley below....

[@markmoore4088]

Good job with letting her soar! A hawk pulled from the nest at four weeks of age would be considered an eyas though, not a passage.

[@timmccarthy3034]

@@markmoore4088 U r right , not really a "passage" , but an "eyas", almost ready to fly ...I was just lucky she didn't jump out and die ..when I went to grab her..The nest was about 200 feet up in an oil tower...(high....with a long drop straight down..)..She looked almost fully feathered, when I got her, really... just a few days away from flying....so I'm not sure of the exact age, really, as I first found the nest, and climbed up to check, (with her and 2 other siblings inside) , when she was "about 3 weeks" is what I guessed..... "half grown"....so , I waited...waited til the last possible moment......I really wanted the parents to raise her.....and her parents were FIERCE........ The big old female almost killed me (LITERALLY) when I climbed up to the nest to take her out....... So, perhaps she was a little bit older than "4 weeks"....when I pulled her..like I said, I was lucky....She was one of the best birds I ever had....fearless, and really BIG too.....She slammed into jacks, cottontails, and ground squirrels, TRIED at teals, and....even took a big gopher snake one day..and tried at a dog too, a big great dane, ...and my sister's cat a few times , ( but that is another story lol)......She was a soaring hunter....and loved to use height to gain speed.....She was BIG .....so , heavy too.....Back then, we didn't use scales to weigh birds, just used the "feel" method instead, to "feel" the breast bone, and make a judgment on that....and the behavior , out in the field, to determine if she was "too fat" or not.....Mostly, I think I flew her too fat.....cause she was right on point, but, more than a couple times, flew up to a tree, to "think things over" for a while ..... and a couple of those times, stayed out overnight too..but she always flew down to me the next morning before sunrise..when I went back to get her.....I LOVED THAT RT.......

[@maxlittle1063]

Wow, that's one good looking hawk.

[@southernwoodsfalconry2582]

Fascinating Video! Thanks!

[@MyChannel-dr8em]

what a beautiful bird.

[@butchosprey]

Very first video of yours I've seen! Very nicely made, I can tell it has a lot of production value! Subscribed to you! :-)

[@terryisaac8195]

According to Master Falconer Jemima Parry-Jones (KZbin: "Understanding Falconry, 1990, UK"), you are quite correct about the tempermental personality of this bird you flying. Luckily you have wide open country to fly it in. It doesn't do well in enclosed, wooded areas and it takes a lot of time for it to recover speed, so allowing it to continuously fly to/from your fist suits it quite well!!! You two seem to have good working relationship going. I'm sure that the two of you will do well working with your two dogs. Best wishes to you all!

[@lamaspacos]

Amazing, the American counterpart of Bonelli's eagle.

[@jwhalverdon8474]

Interesting convergence, my last dog's name was Scully, and I work with a ferruginous hawk from the four corners part of Utah! I noticed her open gape, our Phoenix is a bit of a slack jawed mouth breather, also. Is.that a frooj thing, too? Like the other poster, I also noticed the bright white bloomers on Scully. She's a beauty any way you slice it! Thanks for sharing the vid.

[@abelmantor7557]

Amazing bird of prey.

[@oldschoolhawking8191]

Awesome video!😎👍

[@elijahglasser1421]

Very cool hawk

[@RyanVanDongen]

Beautiful video!

[@gregfelice1969]

awesome job on this

[@njfalconry]

Great video 👍🏼

[@ellejay1066]

That hawk has some great feather pants!

[@anthonyzimba9077]

nice healthy Bird keep up the good work.

[@kainbaran]

Grandioso como manejan ese ferrugino! No había visto que lo usarán para cetreria.

[@tataxoscar4843]

Amazing hawk :)

[@Longwinger]

This is interesting. I saw a video of someone in England that had trained a Harris hawk to *wait on*. I think they used kite training to accomplish it. Is this how Skully was trained to go *up*?

[@markmoore4088]

Nice video! How well did this hawk do at catching game?

[@icearstorm4210]

Nice video! I thought ferruginous hawks usually had brown or copper-colored "boot" feathers, but this one's are pure white. Are his white feathers on the tibiotarsal area just a juvenile trait or a color morph, then?

[@DominicMilewski007]

Essentially this bird was just a passage bird that also appears to be a slightly whiter morph.

[@markmoore4088]

Juvenile trait

[@anthonyzimba9077]

Please ck out Frank Taylor from Minnesota. He is Banding Hawks and Falcons in Northern Minnesota. September-October by lake Superior area. He will be posting the fall of 2016 Migration.

[@miklee9308]

What weight was he flying at

[@massmanute]

Can this method of hunting also work for a red tail hawk?

[@iclazion]

My Ultimate dream. To hunt with a female Buteo Regalis. WOW thanks for sharing.

[@NTfoolhardy]

Do you use a wooden giant hood? If so what are the dementions?

[@austinobrien4563]

Wish mine flew that good

[@gregoryh4601]

Hello. Does Melissa still have Skully? Does she have her own KZbin? I just getting started in Falconry. Greg of Ohio

[@tofumar]

Please explain what you mean by "partial imprint."

[@FalconryTold]

It means the bird was taken from its nest at a later age, so it's not fully imprinted on humans, or its parents.

[@Joshmod]

Great video. I really enjoy your channel and appreciate the amount of artistic effort that you put into it. Two quick questions of different natures: 1. What camera are you shooting on in most of your walking shots? 2. On the note of "imprint" and "partial imprint" - are these birds typically released back into the wild at any point or do they need to stay with the falconer? Thanks again and keep up the great work.

[@FalconryTold]

Josh, thanks for the compliment and the interest! In this video I was shooting with a Canon 70d. Typically I shoot with a 5d Mark III, but not for this video. Imprinted and partially imprinted birds are considered non-releaseable, their semi-dependence on, and non-fear of humans would render them susceptible to an untimely death in the wild.

[@williampinchers]

Great vidio how’s the boy doing

[@munenekermer9665]

Would it be possible to get a contact detail eg. Facebook account of Melissa because I've got a friend who's soon to collect an African Hawk-Eagle and he would like to train his like Melissa's. So he would like to find out how she did it?

[@dakotau2575]

What's the best hawk for falconry?

[@HarryBalsak]

Red tailed hawk is the most common in the US

[@silive88]

What does mean she take from skulley Utah? You can just take hawks? Wow cool!

[@rayl3441]

Take is a term falconers use. Without a permit you could go to jail and face a $10,000 fine. These are not pets, they're a very time consuming responsibility. At minimum you'd have to go out hunting with them for 3 hours every day or at least every other day. Add in driving time to remote locations and it's more like a job.

[@Louloustreamz]

Then this bird just flys around and eats the food she gives him. I’m cool with having pet birds but don’t act like catching 3 rabbits in a year is anything my dog dose that and he’s a free mut

[@xxairbornexx4499]

cool it has no dislikes.

[@FalconryTold]

That is cool, and rare! We'll see how long it lasts!

[@kennyandme3780]

I didnt see anything all I seen was black