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Capt.
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some eastside hovel
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Excellent! Nice to see a ST thread turn positive. I'm from a family of biologists and never knew some of this info. Thanks.
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Bushman
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The state of quantum flux
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I removed my page one post intended as political humor.
I'm sorry Falcon Flyer,
Due to how Werner puts it, "my lack of fund of knowledge," in hindsight after being schooled by all the great info on this thread, I see that my post was inappropriate.
Thank you, and your biologist falconer friends here, for all the education, great thread.
-bushman
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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NO Don't Do That
Feb 5, 2017 - 08:24am PT
I removed my page one post intended as political humor.
I'm sorry Falcon Flyer,
Due to how Werner puts it, "my lack of fund of knowledge," in hindsight after being schooled by all the great info on this thread, I see that my post was inappropriate.
Thank you, and your biologist falconer friends here, for all the education, great thread.
-bushman
This is ' our local She//he has taken over from his parents who we have not seen for some yrs.
Always loud, we hear the call more than we should I always think?
It has a very fertile hunting ground but looks thin ?,!
Ho no ! Don't delete !
Geeze, Bushman ! Nah !
not that your snark wasn't all sorts of off
it was what it was
BD ( just learned that means ' Big Deal' )
The snark is part of the whole fabric of the good thread
here this is a Bad, 'Bad', Bird Butt Shot
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sandstone conglomerate
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sharon conglomerate central
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Here's a photo, one of 100's, of my last red-tail. She loved squirrels.
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Bushman
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The state of quantum flux
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Check with a D. Trump who preys on chicks legally also, tweets hourly, and is found everywhere, can't miss him...
Ok Gnome, at your behest. It's still inappropriate.
I'm more concerned with impeding doom anyway so,
live and learn...
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Bushman
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The state of quantum flux
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little Z
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un cafetal en Naranjo
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Saw this bad boy this morning. Ever fly one of these sandstone?
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sandstone conglomerate
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sharon conglomerate central
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That's a Harris Hawk, native to parts of arizona and mexico. I've never flown one before, but i have friends that have. They hunt in packs, like wolves, and most people who use them tend to fly 2 or more, because they are such social animals. Another unique trait among the raptors. Being from the southern deserts, they don't do particulary well in really cold climates. They have a definite hierarchy, and they're very easy to work with. Some falconers think they are easier to work with than the red-tail, but hawks in general, and buteos especially, form pretty deep bonds with their handlers. Most of them come from a breeding program. I like wild-caught birds myself, hence the red-tailed hawk, and if you live in areas where they are indigenous, you can apply for a trapping permit. Falconers can only take passager, or first year birds, from the wild. That is when their mortality rate is the highest. If they survive their first year, their survival rate goes way up. Adults that come into the trap are released, because that means more hawks in the years to come. If I lived in the desert areas where the Harris is native to, I'd definitely like to try my hand at a passage bird.
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healyje
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Portland, Oregon
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Falconry actually improves the breeding success in these birds.
Checked with a long-time, local raptor biologist about this statement. He was quite circumspect I thought, basically saying that taking chicks means chicks (either taken or the left) that might not have survived then might.
That means more chicks may survive and - back in during the days of heavy intervention to help the recovery of raptor species - this might have been taken as 'breeding success', but at this point the survival of birds that otherwise might not have made it wouldn't necessarily be considered reproductive success or an improvement to the population of breeding pairs.
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