I’ve been training a now 16 week old parent reared male kestrel to the lure, he’s been free only about a week and I too have noticed much more eagerness to fly to the lure rather than to the fist. Also he is exactly the same with hovering above and around me instead of doing passes, but I’m now rewarding him for when he turns away and does a circle of the field to encourage him to become less clingy rather than always rewarding when he’s constantly hovering in my face 😂. He’s just started successfully taking it from the air when I throw it up to him after he’s circled the field so I hope this will eventually lead to a successful pass. It’s my first time using a lure myself so I’m learning just as much as he is!

That's just amazing. This looks like exceptional progress! I don't know how long kestrels typically need to learn these behaviors, but just it looks like Igor picked up the job very quickly, which just highlights how smart birds can be. I knew corvids and parrots were smart, but I'm begining to tihnk all birds are exceptional thinkers and masters of pattern recognition. And those reflexes! I'm just really blown away here, you do good work.

As a falconer, I love the honesty of trial and tribulations in this video. Nice to watch and keep up the good work

10:50 didn’t think he would landed on the camera 😂 I always that it was cool that kestrels can be flying and then hover on the spot. Good job Igor can’t looking forward to part 2

I’m a rookie fascinated by all of this. So cool to learn and experience all of this thank you for your dedication and sacrifice to these beautiful creatures

Hi Dan love the video I love igor he is my favourite out of all ur birds great video

I am researching Kestrels (torenvalken in dutch) for over 6 months now, i want to THANK YOU for your TIME and EFFORT you put inn to educate people like me. It feels like i am learning more from your content then every book i read. Again THANK YOU so much! DAN the MAN! SUB+1 from Amsterdam

Another great video showing your journey with Igor. Its amazing watching him hover over you watching the lure and he was very quick at learning what was coming!

he is so cool when he flies and moves really fast !!!! 🐦🐦👍

Lovely work, the kestrel is a beauty , you have done amazingly in a short time . Nice filming. Thanks for sharing.

Magic, spotting a hover from a motor is brilliant, never mind this, great stuff, lotta graft gone into this, much appreciated 👍

Hi Dan Must have missed this video. What a beautiful little bird. Looks like a load of fun. Good luck with him.😊

This is incredible Dan keep it up and well done Igor I cant wait for part 2 ❤

Great video, love the step by step training videos.

Hi Dan! I wish you a good health . Hope you're doing good. It's good to see you back with these awesome videos that will help the falconry community. Looking forward to them ☺️

Good training approaches and a grand little bird

He's special Dan...👌

Thank you for the interesting video. I recently encountered a Kestral while driving to town. He was on the ground and flew into the bumper of the car. I backed up, wrapped him up in some paper towel and brought him home to administer to his wounds. He had blood from his head and right eye. My daughter treated him with a little hydrogen-peroxide around the eye and we set him up in a dog crate with branches and water. It took quite a while for the eye to heal, but he seems perfectly normal except for a lazy eye covering. He loves being fed, jumping up and down and his little chest beating when he sees me with a mouse at his door then has no problem grabbing it from me. His rehabilitation has been a little less than a month.

I ❤falcon s they are beautiful birds .❤❤❤👍👍👍👍😎

Great job mate

Great learning and interesting video ❤

I enyoyed the vidio. its lovely to see the male kestrel doing so well. and thank you for looking the kestrel. i hope to do projects on wild birds in the near future, hope to get a wild bird camera, and do paintings on wild life.

Thank you so much for this video, it was really interesting, I really enjoyed it 🤩🙏

This content is super underrated. Incredible footage and video structure

Wow great video man

Impressive! That's one handsome bird

Reminds me off a movie a boy with his kestrel Kes long time ago

Such a cute bird!

Was my first bird when I was eight watched KES the film I was hooked I’m now 48 and have had a few birds in my day I’m flying a Harris hawk iv had her for 13 years now great vid m8🥰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

This is so freakiing awsome

Eurasian Kestrels are my favourite birds. They are beautiful.

lovely, keep the good job up

Great video ❤

What can you say. Brilliant episode

2:49 the bird poops while he’s holding it. That’s all I’ve retained from this video. Thanks!

Such as a majestic bird ❤

Just found your channel top man we have a owl sanctuary near me you've inspired me to do some volunteer work and learn more about birds of prey as have always been interested thank you 👍

I like your falcon cool 😎 thanks for the viewing

the male kestrel is so quite, we can learn so much from wild animals

I love your videos and im trying to save up for my falconers license,..

Hi Dan loving the clip can I ask what way you mount your tag it looks good? Thank you Willie

11:47 Both of you are so Cool !😎

This guy is good my brother is a veterinarian and a falconer. ❤❤❤

Hello Dan, im a beginner and your videos are super helpful. My kestrel is a big fat chicken at 250 g, ive started training and he flies from perch to perch and hops to the glove (weve only been going about a week) but he loses focus easily and sometimes just sits around all fluffy with his foot up. Ive started dropping his weight about 3g a day and now hes 229g.ive noted Igors weight, but have read that theres only half an ounce betwen life and death and no room for error, so I'm scared stiff. How do i know im in the right place?

what a beauty

Beautiful! What was the electronic device you attached at 7:20? Some sort of radio device for locating?

He is Beautiful!

Please can I ask about what my bird is and how to feed it cause it fell from a tree due to a rain storm.

So I’m just getting into all this, do you have a video referring to why you monitor their weight daily? I know physics must have a lot to do with it, does it dictate the kind of training or hunting you’ll do for that day? Or is it simply to monitor growth?

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Great video cheers dan! you've mentioned a couple of times birds moulting and reclaiming them although what does 'reclaiming' actually mean and entail? also have you or are you going to do a video on moulting at some point?

How many days does it need to be fed for bird training? Thank you ❤

Looks so fun, could one of these little guy successfully take a rabbit?

Lovely male kestrel , pleasure to watch you my friend

So like do you keep the bird hungry till training? And whats the amount of food you feed it?

Are you the same guy who has a fishing channel? If so i live your videos, i was bummed you come to north wales and i didnt get to meet you 🤣 i would have loved a chat

how many times a day do you train your small raptors? great video, thanks!

Part 2?

I just got one

wish I'd seen this 50 years ago.

Great video! I don’t know about other people but I’d love to see a video of just raw footage of your daily routine with one of your birds. Anyways, have a good one!

We’re do you get your birds

How should I know my Bird's minimum and maximum weight for flying?

Kestrels are falconid birds of prey that constitute the genus Kestrellus, there are over fourteen extant species of kestrel, thus making them the largest genus of the Falconidae family, the fourteen extant kestrel species are the American Kestrel (Kestrellus sparverius), the Common Kestrel (Kestrellus tinnunculus), the Lesser Kestrel (Kestrellus naumanni), the Fox Kestrel (Kestrellus alopex), the Rock Kestrel (Kestrellus rupicolus), the Great Kestrel (Kestrellus rupicoloides), the Grey Kestrel (Kestrellus ardosiaceus), the Dickinson's Kestrel (Kestrellus dickinsoni), the Seychelles Kestrel (Kestrellus araeus), the Mauritius Kestrel (Kestrellus punctatus), the Newton's Kestrel (Kestrellus newtoni), the Banded Kestrel (Kestrellus zoniventris), the Spotted Kestrel (Kestrellus moluccensis), and the Oceanian Kestrel (Kestrellus cenchroides), the american kestrel is the most basal of the fourteen extant kestrel species and is the only one found in the Americas.

Wait for part 2

I want to learn how to train it

Proper cute birds kestrels

Could you do a video showing all your birds?

I may have missed it, but is he an American kestrel?

Is it true falconers deprive their birds of food? and use other cruel methods?

Next part

I have 0ne kestrel help me what type of meat i should give.

What do you hunting

Are u train him to a glove sometimes?

How do these birds come into captivity legally?

just wonder what is your writing on your black board for what purpose is that?

Any update on this kestrel?

What do you feed him?

Why did you imprint a Kestrel ? they are such sociable as parent reared birds

I want to learn how to train it