FALCONRY - ASPECTS OF CARE OF THE TRAINED FALCON AND HAWK: Including a step-by-step guide to building the 'weathering loft', foot care, beak care, food preparation, the first winter, and the diary of training a lanneret. By Michael Davie.

2024 1st edition. Large 4to paperback (207 x 296mm). Ppxii,332. Colour photographs throughout, line drawings, foreword by Graham Watkins.

A wide-ranging and comprehensive introduction to keeping and flying raptors in the UK with detailed photographs and plans for building a weathering loft and travelling box. Chapters include: Getting your bird; Diary of training Jarvis a parent-reared lanneret; The development of the falcon; The swung line, how it is made; The development of the hawk including buzzards; The hood; Foot care; Wing tip oedema; The first moult; Tail belling; Aspects of handling; Feather management; Water; the health of the bird and ailments to look out for; Mutes and pellets; Foods and food preparation; Feather plucking in Harris hawks; Dogs; Imprints; Use of telemetry and lost birds; The accomodation we offer our birds, the weathering and the loft; The weathering loft; Drawings; Materials and quantities required to build the weathering lofts; Travelling box and night quarters.