How to train a Kestrel | Part 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2022
- In this video i am going to show how i train Igor my kestrel to the lure. Kestrels are a very versatile little falcon, and can be trained to both the glove and the lure. Igor has only ever been trained to the fist so i wanted to have a go at training my kestrel to the lure.
Igor did really well in this weeks training, however he did spend a lot of time hovering rather than passing the lure, and while i do want Igor to be hovering in the future, i first have to get him properly flying to the lure.
In part 1 Igor goes through the stages from reclaiming to fly free to the lure, but he has a lot of work ahead!
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I’ve been training a now 16 week old parent reared male kestrel to the lure, he’s been free only about a week and I too have noticed much more eagerness to fly to the lure rather than to the fist. Also he is exactly the same with hovering above and around me instead of doing passes, but I’m now rewarding him for when he turns away and does a circle of the field to encourage him to become less clingy rather than always rewarding when he’s constantly hovering in my face 😂. He’s just started successfully taking it from the air when I throw it up to him after he’s circled the field so I hope this will eventually lead to a successful pass. It’s my first time using a lure myself so I’m learning just as much as he is!
I’m happy it’s not just my Kestrel being weird then 😂
Have you realised how magical it is swinging a lure for a falcon, you won’t ever be able to stop now you have started!!!
from where I can get this kestrel ?
As a falconer, I love the honesty of trial and tribulations in this video. Nice to watch and keep up the good work
Thank you, I have had people question the videos before thinking it’s not real but it all is, I think it’s important to show people that working with birds doesn’t always go as exactly as planned
10:50 didn’t think he would landed on the camera 😂
I always that it was cool that kestrels can be flying and then hover on the spot. Good job Igor can’t looking forward to part 2
He landed on that camera way more times than what was shown in the video 😂
I am researching Kestrels (torenvalken in dutch) for over 6 months now, i want to THANK YOU for your TIME and EFFORT you put inn to educate people like me. It feels like i am learning more from your content then every book i read.
Again THANK YOU so much! DAN the MAN! SUB+1 from Amsterdam
Thank you for such a wonderful comment, comments like this push me to continue making the videos!
I’m a rookie fascinated by all of this. So cool to learn and experience all of this thank you for your dedication and sacrifice to these beautiful creatures
Another great video showing your journey with Igor. Its amazing watching him hover over you watching the lure and he was very quick at learning what was coming!
It was lovely watching him but I would rather he save that for later and actually start following the lure round like I’m asking him to begin with!
Hi Dan love the video I love igor he is my favourite out of all ur birds great video
Thank you, I’ll let him know, he’s a few peoples favourite! 😁
Magic, spotting a hover from a motor is brilliant, never mind this, great stuff, lotta graft gone into this, much appreciated 👍
Great job mate
he is so cool when he flies and moves really fast !!!! 🐦🐦👍
Kestrels can be very quick when they want to be!
This is so freakiing awsome
Hi Dan
Must have missed this video. What a beautiful little bird. Looks like a load of fun. Good luck with him.😊
This is incredible Dan keep it up and well done Igor I cant wait for part 2 ❤
Thanks, I can’t wait to have him stooping at the lure and flying all around!
Great video, love the step by step training videos.
Thank you, got a few more on the way!
Wow great video man
Great learning and interesting video ❤
Thank you very much 😁
Hi Dan! I wish you a good health . Hope you're doing good. It's good to see you back with these awesome videos that will help the falconry community. Looking forward to them ☺️
Thank you, I hope you are well too!
Thank you so much for this video, it was really interesting, I really enjoyed it 🤩🙏
Thank you very much for watching 😊
Lovely work, the kestrel is a beauty , you have done amazingly in a short time . Nice filming.
Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, he’s been a great little bird!
He's special Dan...👌
He’s a little star! 😁
He's disabled/he's disabled/...
Impressive! That's one handsome bird
Reminds me off a movie a boy with his kestrel Kes long time ago
Good training approaches and a grand little bird
Thank you very much 😁
This content is super underrated. Incredible footage and video structure
Thank you I really appreciate that!
I ❤falcon s they are beautiful birds .❤❤❤👍👍👍👍😎
Thank you for the interesting video. I recently encountered a Kestral while driving to town. He was on the ground and flew into the bumper of the car. I backed up, wrapped him up in some paper towel and brought him home to administer to his wounds. He had blood from his head and right eye. My daughter treated him with a little hydrogen-peroxide around the eye and we set him up in a dog crate with branches and water. It took quite a while for the eye to heal, but he seems perfectly normal except for a lazy eye covering. He loves being fed, jumping up and down and his little chest beating when he sees me with a mouse at his door then has no problem grabbing it from me. His rehabilitation has been a little less than a month.
I enyoyed the vidio. its lovely to see the male kestrel doing so well. and thank you for looking the kestrel.
i hope to do projects on wild birds in the near future, hope to get a wild bird camera, and do paintings on wild life.
This guy is good my brother is a veterinarian and a falconer. ❤❤❤
Such as a majestic bird ❤
What can you say. Brilliant episode
lovely, keep the good job up
Was my first bird when I was eight watched KES the film I was hooked I’m now 48 and have had a few birds in my day I’m flying a Harris hawk iv had her for 13 years now great vid m8🥰🏴
Great video ❤
Thank you! 😁
the male kestrel is so quite, we can learn so much from wild animals
Such a cute bird!
He is very sweet
Its a death machine dude.
I like your falcon cool 😎 thanks for the viewing
Hi Dan loving the clip can I ask what way you mount your tag it looks good?
Thank you
Willie
Eurasian Kestrels are my favourite birds. They are beautiful.
I love your videos and im trying to save up for my falconers license,..
what a beauty
He is lovely
Just found your channel top man we have a owl sanctuary near me you've inspired me to do some volunteer work and learn more about birds of prey as have always been interested thank you 👍
You are very welcome, I’m sure you will have a lot of fun! 😁
He is Beautiful!
2:49 the bird poops while he’s holding it. That’s all I’ve retained from this video. Thanks!
Beautiful! What was the electronic device you attached at 7:20? Some sort of radio device for locating?
Hello Dan, im a beginner and your videos are super helpful. My kestrel is a big fat chicken at 250 g, ive started training and he flies from perch to perch and hops to the glove (weve only been going about a week) but he loses focus easily and sometimes just sits around all fluffy with his foot up. Ive started dropping his weight about 3g a day and now hes 229g.ive noted Igors weight, but have read that theres only half an ounce betwen life and death and no room for error, so I'm scared stiff. How do i know im in the right place?
Great video cheers dan!
you've mentioned a couple of times birds moulting and reclaiming them although what does 'reclaiming' actually mean and entail? also have you or are you going to do a video on moulting at some point?
Reclaiming is when you take them from their moulting aviary to begin training again, if you would like a video on moulting I will add it to the list!!!
@@MercerFalconryYes please that would be great, cheers!
how many times a day do you train your small raptors? great video, thanks!
Once a day every day!
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So I’m just getting into all this, do you have a video referring to why you monitor their weight daily? I know physics must have a lot to do with it, does it dictate the kind of training or hunting you’ll do for that day? Or is it simply to monitor growth?
wish I'd seen this 50 years ago.
11:47 Both of you are so Cool !😎
Thank you, I think Igor is a lot more cool than I am 😂
Looks so fun, could one of these little guy successfully take a rabbit?
Are you the same guy who has a fishing channel? If so i live your videos, i was bummed you come to north wales and i didnt get to meet you 🤣 i would have loved a chat
Lovely male kestrel , pleasure to watch you my friend
He is a lovely little falcon!
I just got one
How many days does it need to be fed for bird training? Thank you ❤
So like do you keep the bird hungry till training? And whats the amount of food you feed it?
Great video! I don’t know about other people but I’d love to see a video of just raw footage of your daily routine with one of your birds. Anyways, have a good one!
That’s basically what the members vlog is!
@@MercerFalconry there's a member's vlog?!?!?!
Yes, I have only made one so far but plan to make many more, it can only be watched by the channel members
@@MercerFalconry hmmmm, interesting. I’m gonna have to become a member once I’ve bought all my falconry gear.
@@MercerFalconry hey I have a question. I’m trying find good creance line for a red-tailed buzzard sized bird. Do you know what time of line I should use. I can’t find any of what my sponsor recommended.
Please can I ask about what my bird is and how to feed it cause it fell from a tree due to a rain storm.
Wait for part 2
Could you do a video showing all your birds?
I might do at some point
Proper cute birds kestrels
Part 2?
We’re do you get your birds
How should I know my Bird's minimum and maximum weight for flying?
I want to learn how to train it
I may have missed it, but is he an American kestrel?
Are u train him to a glove sometimes?
I trained him to step to the glove from the lure once he has eaten his reward
Kestrels are falconid birds of prey that constitute the genus Kestrellus, there are over fourteen extant species of kestrel, thus making them the largest genus of the Falconidae family, the fourteen extant kestrel species are the American Kestrel (Kestrellus sparverius), the Common Kestrel (Kestrellus tinnunculus), the Lesser Kestrel (Kestrellus naumanni), the Fox Kestrel (Kestrellus alopex), the Rock Kestrel (Kestrellus rupicolus), the Great Kestrel (Kestrellus rupicoloides), the Grey Kestrel (Kestrellus ardosiaceus), the Dickinson's Kestrel (Kestrellus dickinsoni), the Seychelles Kestrel (Kestrellus araeus), the Mauritius Kestrel (Kestrellus punctatus), the Newton's Kestrel (Kestrellus newtoni), the Banded Kestrel (Kestrellus zoniventris), the Spotted Kestrel (Kestrellus moluccensis), and the Oceanian Kestrel (Kestrellus cenchroides), the american kestrel is the most basal of the fourteen extant kestrel species and is the only one found in the Americas.
What do you hunting
How do these birds come into captivity legally?
I think they breed them in captivity!
just wonder what is your writing on your black board for what purpose is that?
As I have 11 birds to keep track of it helps, I also have to keep a record for my animal activities license
What do you feed him?
Beef and chicken mainly
@@MercerFalconry thanks
Any update on this kestrel?
I’m working on it!
@@MercerFalconry Awesome! Thanks for the quick reply! Love the channel
Why did you imprint a Kestrel ? they are such sociable as parent reared birds
He’s not an imprint, he is parent reared
@@MercerFalconry umm ok if you say so
If I say so? Ok
Oh please do tell me if there’s anything else you know personally about my birds that I don’t know!
@@MercerFalconry was just a polite observation. Some parent reared birds are reared with open fronted aviary’s i just commented because your Kestral was quite vocal on the glove and mantled with food on the lure and a lot of centres fly imprints .
I want to learn how to train it