What a fantastic video with a such an important topic. Thank you.

Very excited for your future book!

This is so helpful! I love your theory-first mindset -- it's much better than the practice-first I see elsewhere. Thank you!

Thank you. This has been one topic I have deffinately been interested in this. I am nervous about doing an imprint because of just how vocal I have seen them being with other falconers.

This is a video that one needs to watch, and watch, and take on board...!!

I think I'll stick to passage falconry, but I was curious about how to deal with the mindset of an imprint bird and troubleshooting excessive vocalizations. I'm still getting the hang of training through operative conditioning and other methods, and it just amazes me how clever these strategies are to fix/direct behavior. Thanks for the wonderful wisdom as always.

@shereesmazik5030

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I trained in Behavior Modification based on the work of B . F . Skinner, but used the method on Intellectually Challenged . Not that effective based on my experience due to inadequate control of the environment. It is the prevailing theory at many wildlife centers .

Hey Ben, great content as always! I ve a suggestion for another video... I d like to see some content about strained caracaras oder caracaras in general. Maybe even something about their use as a display bird. Thx and keep it up!

Next episde: Ben Woodruff interviews a Goshawk about it's children. ALL SECRETS REVEALED!

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just like how laughing and yawning is contagious in humans

After the podcast on Cooper's Hawks, and your ongoing interest in correctly channeling aggression. How about a book on flying Accipiters. A modern approach. Shortwings seem to be very much back in fashion. But everything about them that is available is somewhat dated.

Hay great video as always, would definitely be useful for future birds. However how do I stop the birds that is already vocalizing… I’m working with a buteogallus meridionalis and a pseudastur albicollis

I learned from watching my Older Brother and his Falconry friend's way back in the late 1960's . I did the Opposite. I or anyone with an Eyas DON"T CUT YOUR Birds weight down. Eyas's are ALWAYS hungry. And Mantling, simply, constantly pushing their Wings back with your index finger. Over time,,,,,,,,,,,,,, the Bird will stop. And if you can, at least tame Hack the Bird for muscling them up. I used the roof of my small truck with some non-slip soft Astroturf and give tid bits of food when the Bird comes back to rest or whatever. Also, by NOT cutting weight back screaming should stop as well, over time. You will have a healthier Bird. I only had Eyas Prairie falcons. In the 70's it was almost impossible to get a permit for a Peregrine....Because of the use of DDT. Witched caused thin egg shells..... Good luck. If you are a Newbie (apprentice) GET A sponcer to help you... Remember, there is NO stupid question except for the question you DON'T ask...

Ben. My current issue with unwanted vocalizations is with a passage prairie I trapped January of last year. I have had her 14 months. Last year’s training I would call normal passage training but over the molt she started vocalizing such that by molt end she screamed worse (and mantles) than any imprint I ever trained. Second year she screams always when she sees me except when she is actually in the air. Once on the lure or game she starts again. What is going on with this passage bird?

What about vocalisation in older birds? 3 falcons aged 8,7,6 lanneret and RNS, been silent until I moved house now all three are noisy before going out on the weathering lawn or when coming in to the mews at night . Could it be a breeding thing?

@Ben, When you were taking the bird in the nest to food, is it also advisable that you cover yourself up in such a way as the bird doesn’t recognize you thereby further disassociating you with food?

@benwoodrufffalconry

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Some people do, but I have never bothered. They are learning so fast that obtaining them seems to be quickly forgotten. In my view they seem to be far more shaped by things that are repeat events or things or scenarios that they repeatedly see, rather than one time events.

Hi Ben, thanks for your videos, so informative! I have a question: if I mustn't bring food to the bird, but I have to bring the bird to the food, how can I then teach him to come to me to get food? Is there a time when things change and I teach him to come to me to eat? Many thanks!

@benwoodrufffalconry

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If it is a baby bird you are training, have the lure something you also bring them to. Have food on the lure. As they get a little older and are running around, bring them near the lure, but have a long lure line and have than line go away from you, around the back of a tree or a pole, and then back to you. So you pull the line and the lure moves, but it is moving away from you and the bird, the bird chases it on the ground, but still does not have the visual that you are moving it. Once the bird is hard penned, it is the lure that the bird is keyed in on, not your association with it, so you are fine to then call them to an ungarnished lure that you are serving up to them. As in other videos, once the catch the ungarnished lure, throw food to the side and they hop off the lure and onto the food and you hid the lure. Then when they have eaten the food, pick them up on an ungarnished glove. My approach to falcons is a bit different. But what I have described is what I do with all eagles, accipiters, buteos, parabuteos and most owls.

@andreagentile6872

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@@benwoodrufffalconry extremely interesting, I must try it. Many thanks!

Hey Ben! I have a 4 year old female parent reared Harris Hawk. I’ve recently put her up for the molt. Every time she here’s my voice she starts screaming. Any advice on how to address this? Thanks!

Food is only one part of the problem in screaming birds. Age is the other major part aside from training. That's why you trap a PASS-AGE !

But if you want to train your Accipiter to hunt off the fist, you want it to come to the fist and you do this by offering food on the fist? So it's a catch22?

@davidirving2006

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All about how much food is eaten where. A few tipbits from the glove against a significant chunk of daily rations either from a kill or lure. Over feeding on the fist- more noise, more possessiveness over the glove. Or the same response directed at a lure that can be hidden until needed.

My male ak screamer wether he fat or on weight gos wors the older he got was silant his first session

This needs to be outlawed immediately.

@Alaska_Mac

6 ай бұрын

Spoken like someone who is completely and totally uneducated on the subject. Did you know that in the wild, 70-80+% of raptors don't survive through their first year? When a falconer captures a bird, they get it medical checkups and clear it of parasites and give it a safe stable home until it's mature and skilled enough to survive on it's own in the wild, and the vast majority of captured birds are released back into the wild at some point with a VASTLY improved survival rate. Did you know that the entire bond between bird and falconer is built solely on trust, and that when free flying, the bird can actually leave whenever it wants? The bird only returns because it trusts the human and realizes the human means safety and good food, they are NEVER tamed or domesticated, even the ones bred in captivity. Did you know that it was falconers that saved the peregrine from extinction? Did you know that humans have been practicing falconry for thousands and thousands of years? So, you think any historic indigenous tradition you don't like should be outlawed just because of your special little feelings?