JustJess slow and consistent is the best route. Even though it advise against feeding on the fist, a small amount of feeding on the fist for 2-4 days will definitely build trust and can speed up what you are trying to accomplish, just remember to not continue feeding on the fist after you have achieved the trust you are hoping for. But again even without this, just go extremely slow and hold your hand in one place at the point of fear so the gos can acclimate to your hand being there.

I'd be surprised if nobody had ever used a raptor to catch fish, but it's not done in the US. Bald eagles are not legal for falconry, but ospreys might be able to do the job. I don't know if any states allow their use though - again, it's definitely not the norm. You'd have a neat job training the thing to carry the fish to shore but not just fly up in a tree, eat, and take a nap.

Viral Vids Repository yes the question makes sense. I have never encountered this to be a problem. Anything is possible and you are wise to anticipate potential problems like you have with this scenario, but if food isn’t involved, there is not nearly as much possibility of aggression developing, and your glove just becomes a reliable safe perch.

The closer they get to hatching/older the hatched young get, the more of a response to the goshawk tape you will get. Accipiters are fairly resilient with their nests. If you are just walking through a forest with a gos call and not climbing the nest early, I don’t thing you would have a problem with disrupting the nesting cycle. I usually look for gos and coops nests with call tapes when they are still on eggs, and have never had it disrupt their nesting behavior. I would think sharpies would be the same. As for me personally, I usually end up looking for them around the time the babies are hatching.

@@benwoodrufffalconry thanks for the reply. Love the videos and podcasts! Keep up the good work.

zijun Zhou i should have a video on Harris hawks in the next week

The reason why they want apprentices to fly kestrels and red tailed hawks is because they are the most plentiful raptors on the continent. If we screw up and kill the thing, it won't hurt the population in any way. In all honesty, it's unlikely an apprentice is going to kill a bird, and in most cases, the raptor population is more than sufficient to allow apprentices to take any species they'd like, but the entire system is very conservative in both the "trying new things" and the "conservation" senses.

Jason Patterson Thanks for your explanation， it makes a lot of sence

“Stealing” denotes the concept of property, which is a human construct. Not a natural one. Hawks raise their young to a certain age and protect them as the carriers of their genes. But after a month or two of raising them, as soon as those babies leave they become competitors. The parents will compete with, chase off, and even kill their own offspring after that time. So at no point do the parents think of their young as property. But as far as pulling a baby, I did not know that about Canada. A few years back I knew some provinces had a wild take of passage birds and some did not. But I never knew any policies of juvenile birds. So thank you for posting the info. I am more informed now. Always love learning more. In the USA our wild take is EXTREMELY a highly regulated. Which species, what age, and how many years experience you have to have as a falconer before you are allowed to pull a juvenile bird. Every region of the world is so different. But again in the USA, it practically takes an act of Congress to get into falconry.