Books For Falconry Test
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ก.ค. 2024
- LOOKING FOR FALCONRY BOOKS?!? Well then I've got the video for you!
This is a video for those looking to become an apprentice falconer, and needing some good reading material for the falconry test.
My six suggestions in this video are-
1. The Falconer's Apprentice by William C. Oakes
2. The California Hawking Club: Apprentice Study Guide
3. A raptor field guide local to your area
4. Hawks In Flight by David Sibley, Pete Dunne, and Clay Sutton
5. Your state's Falconry Laws and Regulations
6. Any falconry book that looks interesting to you Hope you enjoy!
Amazon is not the only place you can get these books. Smaller falconry websites or bookstores also carry these books.
The Falconer's Apprentice- www.amazon.com/Falconers-Appr...
Hawks In Flight- www.amazon.com/Hawks-Flight-S...
California Hawking Club: Apprentice Study Guide-
Amazon is currently out of stock for this book. I'm not sure if it has been discontinued or not. This book is available on smaller, falconry specific websites. I would encourage you to look around.
www.amazon.com/California-Haw...
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Be sure to leave any questions in the comments, and I'll do my best to answer them.
Bill Oakes was actually my sponsor and I highly recommend reading that book multiple times. It will really help you on your journey into falconry and especially working with RT hawks. I still refer to it today.
It truly is an excellent book!
Just passed my test in Ohio. Even though I’ve purchased many more than these for learning purposes, realistically these are the only ones I would say that I needed to pass the test:
1) The Apprentice falconer
2) CHC study guide and manual
3) The Red-tailed Hawk
- Also the state of Utah has an ebook study guide I bought off of Apple Books.
- NY state has an online practice exam off of Classmarker.
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I'm currently looking into/ studying falconry. What sort of time and resources do you realistically need? To clarify I'm not impoverished or anything. I just don't know anyone directly involved in falconry yet.
Great question! So I'll hit you with the reality from what I've experienced.
At minimum, you're probably going to want to set aside 30 minutes a day for your bird. By the time you get food out, get it thawed (that is not a time intensive process, if the food is bagged just soak in warm water, or get it out the night before), then feed her, your probably looking at 30 minutes minimum. If you are looking to exercise her, it's going to be closer to inbetween 1 and 2 hours (usually never over 2, unless you're hardcore).
But you also have to take into consideration the training process. It took me about 50 days to train both my birds, and that was at minimum 1 hour a day, and I'm sure if you got a stubborn bird it's a possibility that it could be closer to over 2 hours a day. But the initial manning and training process CAN be done at night, so can your everyday feeding and exercising (unless you want to do outdoor flights).
Hunting is another thing you'd have to take in to consideration. Falconry is a hunting sport, and to legally own a bird you must allow it to hunt. I personally do the majority of my hunts on the weekends, it's just when I have the most free time. And the time it takes to hunt varies too. I've caught rabbits in 30 minutes, but sometimes I'm out there all afternoon and don't catch anything.
That's about all I can think of time wise.
So as to resources. It's a good chunk of change to get into falconry. The biggest things will be housing for your bird and food.
For housing (a mew) it can be kind of hard to estimate, because I know guys that have converted an old shed into a mew for less than 100 bucks. But then there's me, Bob The Builder, and I built a mew from scratch, which in raw materials was around $1000 (but take into consideration that that was 4 years ago and materials have shot up since then).
You can also keep your birds inside, but they do need have an outdoor protected weathering yard where they can get regular sun. Vitamin D is very important to a bird's health.
So your mew can kind of be up to your imagination, it just has to meet your state or provincial falconry regulations (and those are super easy to look up for where you are).
For food, you're basically going to need a solid food source. Hunting with your bird will get you some food for her, but not all. There are some good reptile supply stores out there, both local and online. The online one I use is called RodentPro.com, but the downside is that over time it does get very pricey. I know in some states you can pick you roadkill. I know it's gross, but if you see a fresh rabbit on the side of the road and you clean it and it passes the sniff check, that is totally acceptable for your bird to eat.
Those are pretty much your 3 opinions for food, kill it yourself, buy it, or find it.
And then equipment is also something that's a big money dump in the beginning. To get started there's certain things you're gonna need (glove, hood, a bow perch, ect.) that will cost you a bit. My entire equipment haul was around $1000 as well, but I was pretty conservative with what and how I bought. My suggestion would be not to go all out and buy the nicest equipment right off the bat (unless you can, then more power to you). But there's so many ways to save on equipment. Making a lot of your own "bird hardware" (anklets, jesses, leashes, ect.) is something that I still do to this day and it saves a ton of money and is super easy. But then also just looking for deals on falconry equipment or figuring out ways to make your own really go a long way. Asking for certain things for Christmas is also a great way to cover some of that cost, and the gift givers think it's super cool too.
And I think that's pretty much it. Hit me up again if there was anything you were wondering that I missed!
Oh also! You said you don't know anybody involved in falconry yet. A FANTASTIC source for finding falconers is a state's falconry association. In Washington there is the Washington Falconers Association (WFA) and we do a couple meets every year where people bring their birds, hang out and just chat. If you can find a falconry association or club for where you're at, I guaranty that if you figure out when their next meet is and go and just start introducing yourself to people and get them talking you will not be disappointed! There are so many falconers that are a wealth of knowledge and are so great to learn from!
Anyway, I'm not trying to scare you away from falconry at all, but it does take a LOT of commitment. It will become a solid chunk of your life.
I really hope all that helped in some way! And again, if there's something I missed, hit me up again and I'll do my best to answer any questions.
Have a great day!
I’m 18 and trying to get into being a Falconer any more recommendations involving studying for the test?
The only other thing I can think of is sometimes TH-cam video can be really informative. And It definitely depends on what kind of videos you can find. But ya! I'd just say soak up as much info as you can before the test, whether it be books or good videos.
@@caebinmark3618 ok thank you!
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