I Trained a WILD Buzzard | How to train a Buzzard

Үй жануарлары мен аңдар

In this video i explain the story about how i came to have a wild common buzzard. And how i trained a wild buzzard. while this video is not an exact tutorial on how to train a buzzard, it does show the process i a am going through with Barry. Unfortunately when Barry was found in the wild he was in a bad shape, after a couple of trips to the vets, paperwork sent off, and a year of waiting for him to moult, i could finally train him.
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  • @vladislavhosek1383
    @vladislavhosek138311 ай бұрын

    It is nice to see your love for these animals! Have you ever seen or heard of a buzzard attacking joggers? I have been swooped at so many times (never making a contact with my head always stopping and flying away like 3 meters before) by this particural large buzzard for a second year in a row, always late in spring/early in summer. The buzzard always screeches and swoopes at me untill I leave the forest! I actually kinda started liking the bird as weird as it sounds :-D

  • @MercerFalconry

    @MercerFalconry

    11 ай бұрын

    Yes I have been told that before, it’s likely a breeding pair trying to defend a nest with eggs or chicks!

  • @kx1003
    @kx1003Ай бұрын

    Great work!! It’s also nice to see someone else who weighs larger birds in grams too haha 🙏🏼

  • @alanjohnson2662
    @alanjohnson266211 ай бұрын

    You rescued and saved that bird's life.

  • @MercerFalconry

    @MercerFalconry

    11 ай бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @alenbstn3
    @alenbstn32 ай бұрын

    Great videos, now we need part 2 for barry and kestrel

  • @Whitefeather123
    @Whitefeather12311 ай бұрын

    What a great name for a bird of Prey 😉 Great video again, and what a beautiful looking bird our Baz is 🤣

  • @MercerFalconry

    @MercerFalconry

    11 ай бұрын

    Good ol Bazza 😂

  • @colincampbell4261
    @colincampbell42615 ай бұрын

    Lovely wee video, thanks.

  • @davidmclachlan6592
    @davidmclachlan659210 ай бұрын

    That's a great story, I love birds of prey and have trained some of my own, in particular i love buzzards, thanks for sharing.

  • @mistico_90
    @mistico_9011 ай бұрын

    I just love your content ! Keep up the good work!

  • @MercerFalconry

    @MercerFalconry

    11 ай бұрын

    Thank you! 😁

  • @thespaceman903
    @thespaceman90311 ай бұрын

    Amazing work dan every time i see you work with the bird it makes me exited to start workkng with my own birds when i get enough funds to get one

  • @williemurray9379
    @williemurray937911 ай бұрын

    Great video Dan... he's a lovely bird as well. 👍

  • @MercerFalconry

    @MercerFalconry

    11 ай бұрын

    He’s not a lovely bird at the moment while he’s fed up moulting 😂

  • @freebirdofreason1994
    @freebirdofreason199411 ай бұрын

    That’s nice to see , we do love buzzards, lovely job. Good luck.

  • @MercerFalconry

    @MercerFalconry

    11 ай бұрын

    Thank you, he is a lovely bird!

  • @EllieS.04
    @EllieS.047 ай бұрын

    Great video, for a previously wild bird he has done really well, is there a part 2 coming ? Would also love to see the training a wild peregrine you talked about at the end of the video.

  • @patopointfarm
    @patopointfarm9 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much for sharing your passion and work! Compassion is a beautiful thing. Have been watching your series as I am looking to working with upcoming peachicks [2 peacocks and 2 peahens] on perch and flight training. While they will not be hunters, they are intelligent birds and I want to see if I can apply your basics in training to fly from perches to me. THANK YOU again from Alabama USA

  • @rcurrie88
    @rcurrie888 ай бұрын

    Really enjoying seeing a falconer from the other side of the pond. I have family in Lincolnshire but live in the States. Do you hunt with any of your birds or are they strictly flight demonstration and education birds?

  • @Conan_Obrien
    @Conan_Obrien11 ай бұрын

    Loved this one Dan. How long does it generally take for birds of prey to associate your whistle with you having food? Is this ultimately a technique to call the bird back if things go awry? You build up this association slowly over time, so when you need it, you have it? Is this at all similar to the lure? For instance, the bird hears your whistle, knows it has an easy meal and returns? Or the bird sees the lure, knows it has an easy meal and returns? Sorry for all the questions - this stuff is fascinating! Looking forward to more of you and Barry.

  • @MercerFalconry

    @MercerFalconry

    11 ай бұрын

    It’s different for every bird, some learn it faster than others, with the falcons they know when I whistle it means they are guaranteed to get the lure but with the other birds it’s just a vocal signal to go with the visual signal of my arm raising

  • @andyplant3855
    @andyplant385511 ай бұрын

    I’ve been wondering why you whistle after he has landed on your glove and not calling him with the whistle.

  • @MercerFalconry

    @MercerFalconry

    11 ай бұрын

    I always take an opportunity to do some more reinforcement

  • @thespaceman903

    @thespaceman903

    11 ай бұрын

    It's so that Barry makes the association of the wistle with food so if Dan was to free fly him and they don't physically see each other Barry hears the wistle and flies straight to him

  • @shannonherb2048
    @shannonherb20486 ай бұрын

    People just don't know how strong a bird is.

  • @BettingWithDoc
    @BettingWithDoc11 ай бұрын

    Do you wear glasses as a protection of wing moves? Do you have problem with eyes sometime? My left eye has some issues here and there after I started with falconry. Never before.

  • @MercerFalconry

    @MercerFalconry

    11 ай бұрын

    Not really for protection, I always wear sunglasses because I am prone to migraines from light and the sunglasses stops it happening

  • @chrisoliver6169
    @chrisoliver616911 ай бұрын

    Hi Dan. That was a very entertaining and informative video. What was the name of the internal parasite medication your vet gave, and how long was it used ?

  • @MercerFalconry

    @MercerFalconry

    11 ай бұрын

    He wasn’t given any parasite medication, just an anti inflammatory, I sprayed him with Johnson’s mite and lice spray to get rid of the lice on his feathers

  • @JayFitzsimmons1

    @JayFitzsimmons1

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@MercerFalconryGreat video. I'm interested in precautions you take to prevent the spread of lice and other parasites and pathogens. You might explain it in another video - I'm making my way through them slowly but surely.

  • @MercerFalconry

    @MercerFalconry

    3 ай бұрын

    @JayFitzsimmons1 just good hygiene practices really!

  • @CollinGreen-cx1tz
    @CollinGreen-cx1tz11 ай бұрын

    Buteo yes, but I would call it a Red Tail. Great birds mine was known as Maverick.

  • @MercerFalconry

    @MercerFalconry

    11 ай бұрын

    He’s definitely a Eurasian buzzard rather than a Red Tailed Buzzard

  • @andrejdragic446
    @andrejdragic4469 ай бұрын

    I ve been wondering can Common buzzard bueto buteo be train to hunt game bird and rabits.

  • @ranaarshad4350
    @ranaarshad43509 ай бұрын

    What type of food u give him for teaching

  • @irenadragic9134
    @irenadragic913410 ай бұрын

    Can it be traind for hunt

  • @kaboom6101
    @kaboom610110 ай бұрын

    Can you give me some tips????😊

  • @edekskrzynia6902
    @edekskrzynia69026 ай бұрын

    I just found one

  • @kaboom6101
    @kaboom610110 ай бұрын

    Please!

  • @ranaarshad4350
    @ranaarshad43509 ай бұрын

    Is he drinking water?

  • @krimsworld
    @krimsworld11 ай бұрын

    Wait - you guys have sheep? This is news to me 😅

  • @MercerFalconry

    @MercerFalconry

    11 ай бұрын

    No they belong to the farm that lets me fly the birds on their land, sometimes I share the field with sheep, at the moment there is a load of cows!

  • @lilb05
    @lilb0511 ай бұрын

    when you say buzzard i think of birds that look like vultures guess thats just a Oklahoma thing

  • @MercerFalconry

    @MercerFalconry

    11 ай бұрын

    Americans are just strange with how you label birds, you have true hawks, and then you have Harris Hawks, Red Tailed hawks, and Ferruginous Hawks, all of which are buzzards, and then you call vultures buzzards, very odd to me!

  • @lilb05

    @lilb05

    11 ай бұрын

    @MercerFalconry yea we are very odd with names I don't get us sometimes

  • @andrejdragic446
    @andrejdragic4469 ай бұрын

    Pls answear

  • @kaboom6101
    @kaboom610110 ай бұрын

    I have a wild red naped falcon and it is so beautiful but it afraids of me all the time when it sees me trys to fly away and panics. Can you help me with this? @mercer falconry

  • @sukhvirsingh81
    @sukhvirsingh819 ай бұрын

    Do u sell birds ?

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