Falconry &General &Photography Wesley R. Elsberry on 20 Oct 2006 11:03 pm
Fraptorday: Weekly Raptor
Well, my DSLR was stolen, but I still have my archives to draw upon.
Steve Layman gave a demonstration at the 2001 California Hawking Club of the sort of results he gets using straight operant conditioning with his falconry birds. Sharp-shinned hawks are accipiters, high-strung and with a reputation for being temperamental. Layman’s technique, though, resulted in this bird paying close attention to him, performing a series of jump-ups and flights to the lure despite being in front of an audience of falconers in a hotel meeting room. At the end of the demonstration, she got her reward. By her expression, she isn’t willing to share.
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on 17 Oct 2007 at 7:28 am 1.dan said …
isent it a copers hawk
on 17 Oct 2007 at 10:10 pm 2.Austringer said …
No, I am pretty certain that the bird in the picture is a sharp-shinned hawk. Sharpies are a good deal smaller than their Cooper’s hawk cousins, but with many of the accipiter behavioral traits common to sharp-shinned hawks, Cooper’s hawks, and goshawks.
on 12 Mar 2009 at 8:42 pm 3.Cody Livingston said …
Nice Sharp-shinned you got there. im looking for a coopers hawks for falconry. not having any luck trapping one with my pigeons.