Im Raptor handler. I've husbanded, (mand)several. Owls, Cestrals, and Red tails. You gain an emotional bond. They don't. They're as close to a prehistoric animal as nature has. They bond with a trust with a priority for hunger. Its a wonderful feeling to team with one of these amazing creatures. Who without you. A manned Raptor can live to be 15. In the wild on a average they live to be 3 years old. Witch is sad because they don't mate till they're three. Keeping them at a combat weight, trimming beeksteeth, and talons is a passion and commitment very few can take on. God bless you. Its a hard responsibility.
Most people have no clue how cruel the natural world really is. To the natural world that is the standard, without the human perspective projected onto it.
People have such strange attitudes to nature. In the UK, people blame corvids for our loss of songbirds. I'm sure nest predation by corvids doesn't help, but lets be real. The main threat to songbirds are domestic cats that these people often let roam free because it would be 'cruel' to keep them inside. Not to mention, corvids are... literally songbirds themselves. People see the wild as some kind of utopia for animals to live in, without thinking about the amount that wild animals must kill and/or evade in order to simply survive. Falconry is an extension of that!
If you really want to twist an environmentalist's brain in knots, point out how many birds of all kinds that wind farms kill every year. In some areas it rivals cats.
People vilify anything they don't want to understand. That said, the rspb say it isn't clear whether cats negatively affect bird numbers overall. Apparently those birds would probably die anyway.
@@markr1142True. And those deaths are due to habitat loss, pollution, predation, injury, disease and global warming, many of them caused by humans too. Its a tough world!
Exelente Ben jaaaaaaa lo ciento Disney mejor expresado imposible muchos sacan provecho del erroneo sentimiento en la naturaleza gracias Ben un abrazo desde Argentina, desde el doc Felix de la Fuente no habia vuelto a escuchar a nadie hablar tan claro del tema!
Facts do not care about your feelings!! Great video. I have been practicing falconry for since 1988. I have witnessed a huge shift especially from Audubon and the rehab folks ; not all but enough for us to notice.
6:30 I think the situation between dogs and eagles is also just the same. If a dog was to have a litter in the streets, only the strongest would survive. And the puppies would also be spares and hopefully 1or 2 would make it. And the mother dog would later walk away from her puppies if she would prefer that. They just stick together if the puppies are cling to her. I think is more about the human mentality of 'We must save them all' that is really creating this contant polarizing and confused 'logic'.
Yeah specially here in the west people tend to put human emotions on to animals, here is common to go to Sea World and be happy about dolphins and orcas but angry with a bird on a fist
I'd rather they be, and they'd rather be, free, and one year is the minimum, especially for small bodied birds like k-estewls. The larger, the longer they survive in the wild. But a little falconry is ok as long as it does not deplete wild populations, which it doesn't.
Im Raptor handler. I've husbanded, (mand)several. Owls, Cestrals, and Red tails. You gain an emotional bond. They don't. They're as close to a prehistoric animal as nature has. They bond with a trust with a priority for hunger. Its a wonderful feeling to team with one of these amazing creatures. Who without you. A manned Raptor can live to be 15. In the wild on a average they live to be 3 years old. Witch is sad because they don't mate till they're three. Keeping them at a combat weight, trimming beeksteeth, and talons is a passion and commitment very few can take on. God bless you. Its a hard responsibility.
compared to a bird left "free, free to fly...", the falconer's bird has 4x better chance to see its 2nd birthday!
I have been so inspired by you so much I am now going into a aprentiship in falconry and possibly getting my first red-tailed hawk.
Most people have no clue how cruel the natural world really is.
To the natural world that is the standard, without the human perspective projected onto it.
People have such strange attitudes to nature. In the UK, people blame corvids for our loss of songbirds. I'm sure nest predation by corvids doesn't help, but lets be real. The main threat to songbirds are domestic cats that these people often let roam free because it would be 'cruel' to keep them inside. Not to mention, corvids are... literally songbirds themselves.
People see the wild as some kind of utopia for animals to live in, without thinking about the amount that wild animals must kill and/or evade in order to simply survive. Falconry is an extension of that!
If you really want to twist an environmentalist's brain in knots, point out how many birds of all kinds that wind farms kill every year. In some areas it rivals cats.
People vilify anything they don't want to understand. That said, the rspb say it isn't clear whether cats negatively affect bird numbers overall. Apparently those birds would probably die anyway.
@@markr1142True. And those deaths are due to habitat loss, pollution, predation, injury, disease and global warming, many of them caused by humans too. Its a tough world!
Exelente Ben jaaaaaaa lo ciento Disney mejor expresado imposible muchos sacan provecho del erroneo sentimiento en la naturaleza gracias Ben un abrazo desde Argentina, desde el doc Felix de la Fuente no habia vuelto a escuchar a nadie hablar tan claro del tema!
Oh Wow.
Love the footage of the Lanner chasing the 2x Namaqua doves. love those doves!! and Lanners
Happy hawking, Ben. Good video!
Facts do not care about your feelings!! Great video. I have been practicing falconry for since 1988. I have witnessed a huge shift especially from Audubon and the rehab folks ; not all but enough for us to notice.
What to do with unscrupulous fellow falconers, senior falconers bringing the art into disrepute?
6:30 I think the situation between dogs and eagles is also just the same.
If a dog was to have a litter in the streets, only the strongest would survive. And the puppies would also be spares and hopefully 1or 2 would make it. And the mother dog would later walk away from her puppies if she would prefer that. They just stick together if the puppies are cling to her.
I think is more about the human mentality of 'We must save them all' that is really creating this contant polarizing and confused 'logic'.
I had someone tell me that falconry is the equivalent of dog fighting because I "make" my bird chase and attack the animals of my chosing. 🤦♀️
Well said
Very well put
Yeah specially here in the west people tend to put human emotions on to animals, here is common to go to Sea World and be happy about dolphins and orcas but angry with a bird on a fist
I'd rather they be, and they'd rather be, free, and one year is the minimum, especially for small bodied birds like k-estewls. The larger, the longer they survive in the wild. But a little falconry is ok as long as it does not deplete wild populations, which it doesn't.
I don’t think your cat appreciated being left out of the conversation. lol. I appreciate your channel!
storks..they very often pick the weakest one, and, "over the side with ya!" food for cats or rats or corvids, but no longer a burden on "mom"
You were born in 1978!? Dude I totally thought you were like in your early 30s at the most haha