Falconry – aspects of care of the trained falcon and hawk: Including a step-by-step guide to building...

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Michael Davie

Falconry – aspects of care of the trained falcon and hawk

Including a step-by-step guide to building the ‘weathering loft’, foot care, beak care, food...

Michael Davie

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The Choir Press
16 November 2024

Birds (ornithology); Wildlife: birds & birdwatching; Birds, including cage birds, as pets

Falconry - aspects of care of the trained falcon and hawk is a distillation of fifty years of falconry experience by leading falconer Michael Davie. This generously illustrated book concentrates on the daily care needed to maintain the trained hawk and falcon in good health, and includes planning for the new arrival by having suitable accommodation ready for the bird. The book provides a comprehensive construction guide to building the ‘weathering loft’ - a dual-purpose structure giving the falconer options of management. The book describes the training diary of a falcon covering its first-year journey including getting it through the winter, avoiding wind tip oedema and on to the moult the following spring. There is guidance about the general maintenance of the raptor including foot, beak and feather care, and notes on the development of the falcon and the hawk beyond the point of flying free. For falcon flying there is a guide to making a lure and learning to swing it. The book presents an insight into the conditioning and use of the weighing scales and record keeping to guide the falconer in the management of the trained bird. The are invaluable sections on food preparation, use of the hood and looking for a lost bird.

By: Michael Davie
Imprint: The Choir Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 297mm, Width: 210mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 1.117kg
ISBN: 9781789634853
ISBN 10: 1789634857
Pages: 346
Publication Date: 16 November 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword by Graham Watkins; Preface; introduction; Section 1 Getting your bird; Section 2 Diary of training Jarvis a parent reared lanneret; Section 3 The development of the falcon ; Section 4 The swung lure – how it is made ; Section 5 The development of the hawk including buzzards ; Section 6 The hood ; Section 7 Foot care ; Section 8 Wing tip oedema ; Section 9 The first moult ; Section 10 casting ; Section 11 beak care ; Section 12 Tail belling ; Section 13 aspects of handling ; Section 14 Feather management ; Section 15 Water ; Section 16 The health of the bird and ailments to look out for 170; Section 17 Mutes and pellets ; Section 18 Foods and food preparation ; Section 19 Feather plucking in harris hawks ; Section 20 Dogs ; Section 21 imprints ; Section 22 Use of telemetry and lost birds ; Section 23 The accommodation we offer our birds. The weathering and the loft ; Section 24 The Weathering loft; Section 25 Drawings; Section 26 Materials and quantities required to build the ‘weathering lofts’; Section 27 Travelling box and night quarters;

Author Website: http://www.falconry-displays.com

Michael Davie ‘the falconer’ was born in the village of Freshford in Somerset in 1960. His family moved to the Stroud Valleys where he attended a rural school and first encountered falconry. After moving to Gloucester he was in cycling distance of the newly opened falconry centre which allowed him to watch and observe professionals at work. His skills during this period greatly improved and he became an apprentice falconer. He became a professional falconer in his mid-twenties and remained so for 35 years running his own falconry business. Along the way he took a degree in biology, a teaching certificate in rural science followed by a carpentry and joinery qualification. The latter skills being important in the guide to building the ‘weathering loft’ which is a central theme to his book. His book Falconry – aspects of care of the trained falcon and hawk is a distillation of all these skills to produce a reference and resource for others to use.