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Posted: 12/3/2015 12:47:55 PM EDT
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Most interesting pet thread ever.
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Posted: 12/3/2015 2:20:23 PM EDT
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I have a few. One that stays outside so she can get some sunshine on nice mornings, two in her room, and one in the living room for lazy days when it sucks outside. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Church---Do you have perches around your home, or just one that move and tether her to? I have a few. One that stays outside so she can get some sunshine on nice mornings, two in her room, and one in the living room for lazy days when it sucks outside. Its got to be seriously cools to have a social interaction with a wild animal like that. What are her actions when she is in the house. Does she call , does she sleep mostly. Hawks are not exactly parrots so it has to be different. |
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Posted: 12/3/2015 2:57:01 PM EDT
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Its got to be seriously cools to have a social interaction with a wild animal like that. What are her actions when she is in the house. Does she call , does she sleep mostly. Hawks are not exactly parrots so it has to be different. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Church---Do you have perches around your home, or just one that move and tether her to? I have a few. One that stays outside so she can get some sunshine on nice mornings, two in her room, and one in the living room for lazy days when it sucks outside. Its got to be seriously cools to have a social interaction with a wild animal like that. What are her actions when she is in the house. Does she call , does she sleep mostly. Hawks are not exactly parrots so it has to be different. She's very quiet, with the exception of her bells. For the most part she just looks out the window. No when I come home from work she knows it's time to go hunt, and I will hear her flying at the door. When I go in to get her she's waiting at my feet, and will jump right to the glove. If I'd let her she would fly to the scale in the living room. She knows the routine. |
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Posted: 12/3/2015 3:56:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yes I do. That's what makes falconry more of a lifestyle than a hobby. It's a bare minimum of 2 hours a day, every day during the hunting season. If she's at hunting weight, and the weather isn't hellish we will be hunting. Plan to hunt her tomorrow right after I eat. So she will go to the grandparents, and we will run to a spot I have five minutes away. Afterwards I'll go back to hang with the family, and eat dessert. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: do you take her out hunting every day? Yes I do. That's what makes falconry more of a lifestyle than a hobby. It's a bare minimum of 2 hours a day, every day during the hunting season. If she's at hunting weight, and the weather isn't hellish we will be hunting. Plan to hunt her tomorrow right after I eat. So she will go to the grandparents, and we will run to a spot I have five minutes away. Afterwards I'll go back to hang with the family, and eat dessert. |
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Posted: 12/3/2015 4:37:36 PM EDT
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do you take her out hunting every day? Yes I do. That's what makes falconry more of a lifestyle than a hobby. It's a bare minimum of 2 hours a day, every day during the hunting season. If she's at hunting weight, and the weather isn't hellish we will be hunting. Plan to hunt her tomorrow right after I eat. So she will go to the grandparents, and we will run to a spot I have five minutes away. Afterwards I'll go back to hang with the family, and eat dessert. If the bird is kept past hunting season they are normally put up for the summer to molt. If they are kept fat they tend to have better feathers, and they don't break feathers while they grow in. |
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Posted: 12/3/2015 5:29:26 PM EDT
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She's very quiet, with the exception of her bells. For the most part she just looks out the window. No when I come home from work she knows it's time to go hunt, and I will hear her flying at the door. When I go in to get her she's waiting at my feet, and will jump right to the glove. If I'd let her she would fly to the scale in the living room. She knows the routine. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Church---Do you have perches around your home, or just one that move and tether her to? I have a few. One that stays outside so she can get some sunshine on nice mornings, two in her room, and one in the living room for lazy days when it sucks outside. Its got to be seriously cools to have a social interaction with a wild animal like that. What are her actions when she is in the house. Does she call , does she sleep mostly. Hawks are not exactly parrots so it has to be different. She's very quiet, with the exception of her bells. For the most part she just looks out the window. No when I come home from work she knows it's time to go hunt, and I will hear her flying at the door. When I go in to get her she's waiting at my feet, and will jump right to the glove. If I'd let her she would fly to the scale in the living room. She knows the routine. That's Pretty Bad Ass! |
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Posted: 12/14/2015 8:52:02 PM EDT
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Awesome thread and a beautiful bird!
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Posted: 12/14/2015 10:16:14 PM EDT
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Great thread. Please keep posting.
I read a book recently about Indian life and the author (old Indian) said there was one tribe that specialized in catching Eagles. They would dig a hole in the ground, cover it with twigs, branches, and plant a squirrel or rabbit on top. when the eagle flew down and grabbed it, the Indian would reach up and grab the Eagle's legs. He said at that point it got interesting. |
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Posted: 12/17/2015 1:52:25 AM EDT
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Those feet are beautiful instruments of death.
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Posted: 12/17/2015 2:13:07 AM EDT
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Is this a Dupe thread?
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Posted: 12/17/2015 2:51:37 AM EDT
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Is this a Dupe thread? The other is actually the dupe. I was asked to repost it in GD. But a few folks still just follow it here. |
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Posted: 12/26/2015 12:03:20 PM EDT
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The other is actually the dupe. I was asked to repost it in GD. But a few folks still just follow it here. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Is this a Dupe thread? The other is actually the dupe. I was asked to repost it in GD. But a few folks still just follow it here. Just stumbled across this thread today. This is amazing. I wish I had the time to get into something like this. Thanks for the updates! Just subscribed to this thread. |
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Posted: 12/26/2015 7:16:03 PM EDT
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Just stumbled across this thread today. This is amazing. I wish I had the time to get into something like this. Thanks for the updates! Just subscribed to this thread. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Is this a Dupe thread? The other is actually the dupe. I was asked to repost it in GD. But a few folks still just follow it here. Just stumbled across this thread today. This is amazing. I wish I had the time to get into something like this. Thanks for the updates! Just subscribed to this thread. No problem, it's been fun answering questions. Best bet for updates is in this thread. http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1812571_Meet_my_new_hunting_partner_for_this_year__falconry_thread_.html Several other falconers have posted pictures of their birds in it as well. |
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Posted: 12/26/2015 7:28:38 PM EDT
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No problem, it's been fun answering questions. Best bet for updates is in this thread. http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1812571_Meet_my_new_hunting_partner_for_this_year__falconry_thread_.html Several other falconers have posted pictures of their birds in it as well. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Is this a Dupe thread? The other is actually the dupe. I was asked to repost it in GD. But a few folks still just follow it here. Just stumbled across this thread today. This is amazing. I wish I had the time to get into something like this. Thanks for the updates! Just subscribed to this thread. No problem, it's been fun answering questions. Best bet for updates is in this thread. http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1812571_Meet_my_new_hunting_partner_for_this_year__falconry_thread_.html Several other falconers have posted pictures of their birds in it as well. Thanks! I actually went and read through that one after I read this one. Subscribed to both! |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 5:22:10 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/27/2016 6:25:09 PM EDT
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How is she doing? do you fly her now or just feed her? |
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:03:11 PM EDT
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Right now she kept fat so she can grow perfect feathers. But I have flown her on a Ling line at dead rabbits towed by my dog
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Posted: 5/27/2016 11:25:49 PM EDT
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Cool thread. Great photos.
Thanks guys. |
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Posted: 5/28/2016 2:24:53 AM EDT
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You are one of the coolest people on here no joke. I was watching a video on Hawking and got interested in the process, and am very impressed by what you have accomplished.
I skipped the other pages because its 2 Am and I'm about to head to bed, but will be reading the others in the morning. I'm sure it was asked, But how did you get into this awesome form of hunting? |
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Posted: 5/28/2016 10:22:28 AM EDT
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Right now she kept fat so she can grow perfect feathers. But I have flown her on a Ling line at dead rabbits towed by my dog Have any video of that?? I would love to see her doing that |
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Posted: 5/28/2016 10:33:31 AM EDT
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This is the best thread ever.
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Posted: 5/28/2016 1:57:55 PM EDT
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Thanks for the update, I went searching the other night for the other thread.
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Posted: 5/29/2016 1:38:55 PM EDT
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No footage of the dog towing the rabbit. Went to record it once, but forgot to put a sd card in the gopro before I left home.
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Posted: 6/10/2016 7:31:23 PM EDT
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bump to keep it from archive
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Posted: 6/10/2016 8:59:14 PM EDT
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Finally took the time to read completely through this thread.
Awesome. |
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Posted: 7/3/2016 10:02:32 AM EDT
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How's the bird doing?
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Posted: 7/5/2016 12:18:06 PM EDT
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How's the bird doing? She doing very well, just got done moving, got her settled in her new mews. Got to schedule an inspection for it this week. As far as the molt goes she finally hitting her stride on it. She almost done with primaries, and secondary feathers. Her tail is about half way done. I can just now see tips of red coming through. Hopefully she will be done mid to late August so we can hit the woods. Here you can see the tips of her red tail feathers poking out. 
And here's a young black bird that got to close last week. 
I'll take some more pictures when I get off work, she looking pretty haggard now half way through her molt, but you can get a good idea how she's gonna look. |
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Posted: 7/5/2016 5:00:45 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/5/2016 7:40:52 PM EDT
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Wow she is beautiful, and it sure does take some dedication to your sport. Don't know if I could
Do it, but damn I wish I lived next door to you
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Posted: 8/1/2016 6:40:59 AM EDT
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She's going to be a beautiful full colored red tail.
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Posted: 8/1/2016 4:04:51 PM EDT
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This is a great thread! Thanks for doing it.
Is she at all "friendly" towards you? What kind of behavior does she exhibit when she hasn't "seen" you in a bit--like in the morning? |
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Posted: 8/1/2016 5:36:32 PM EDT
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This is a great thread! Thanks for doing it. Is she at all "friendly" towards you? What kind of behavior does she exhibit when she hasn't "seen" you in a bit--like in the morning? Friendly is probably the wrong word. She's pretty tolerant of me. On the perch she's very hand shy with bare hands and will snatch me in a heartbeat. On the glove I can touch her about anywhere. She doesn't enjoy it though, doesn't bother her either. I only touch her to check her condition, or move disheveled feathers into place because I have O.C.D. about that. Definitely not anecessarily animal you want to give a kiss to. She gets handled daily so she's never been fearful, a male I had went completely wild after a week of not seeing people. That was done to get him ready for release. |
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Posted: 8/6/2016 6:36:26 PM EDT
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Slight thread hijack...
Juvenile red tail is down in my yard. Last weekend it's parents were desperately looking for it so it may have been down all week. Should I call the Wildlife Dept or let nature take its course, whatever that may be? The nest is about 150 yards from my house and there are radio antennas in my yard so it's possible it injured itself. ETA Found this advice so I'll let it be. Fledgling birds have their wing feathers, but stubby tail feathers and a few tufts of down. During the first few days after they leave the nest, they are unable to fly and will hop around on the ground fluttering their wings building strength for flight. The parent birds will leave the baby alone for short periods of time but are near by |
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Posted: 8/6/2016 6:49:18 PM EDT
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Is it fully feathered, and how long has it been on the ground?
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Posted: 8/6/2016 7:02:44 PM EDT
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Is it fully feathered, and how long has it been on the ground? Fully feathered and only actually saw it a half hour ago but like I said the parents were pretty frantic last weekend. There were flying from tree to tree calling. That in itself doesn't mean they were looking for this particular bird. Maybe they were searching for another. ETA When I first saw it it hopped and spread its wings equally and neither drooped. Would that be an indication that it's not injured or are they very resilient? |
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Posted: 8/6/2016 7:04:57 PM EDT
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Fully feathered and only actually saw it a half hour ago but like I said the parents were pretty frantic last weekend. There were flying from tree to tree calling. That in itself doesn't mean they were looking for this particular bird. Maybe they were searching for another. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Is it fully feathered, and how long has it been on the ground? Fully feathered and only actually saw it a half hour ago but like I said the parents were pretty frantic last weekend. There were flying from tree to tree calling. That in itself doesn't mean they were looking for this particular bird. Maybe they were searching for another. They can be pretty vocal when the young leave the nest. Keep an eye out, if he seems hurt call DNR and they will give you a list of names to call. |
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Posted: 8/6/2016 7:07:30 PM EDT
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They can be pretty vocal when the young leave the nest. Keep an eye out, if he seems hurt call DNR and they will give you a list of names to call. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Is it fully feathered, and how long has it been on the ground? Fully feathered and only actually saw it a half hour ago but like I said the parents were pretty frantic last weekend. There were flying from tree to tree calling. That in itself doesn't mean they were looking for this particular bird. Maybe they were searching for another. They can be pretty vocal when the young leave the nest. Keep an eye out, if he seems hurt call DNR and they will give you a list of names to call. Will do, thank you. Just added a little info to the previous post. |
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Posted: 8/6/2016 7:11:05 PM EDT
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My GF took this earlier. Cell phone pic and we didn't want to get close.
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Posted: 8/6/2016 7:11:35 PM EDT
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Will do, thank you. Just added a little info to the previous post. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Is it fully feathered, and how long has it been on the ground? Fully feathered and only actually saw it a half hour ago but like I said the parents were pretty frantic last weekend. There were flying from tree to tree calling. That in itself doesn't mean they were looking for this particular bird. Maybe they were searching for another. They can be pretty vocal when the young leave the nest. Keep an eye out, if he seems hurt call DNR and they will give you a list of names to call. Will do, thank you. Just added a little info to the previous post. Most likely it's still figuring it all out. How long has he been on the ground? |
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Posted: 8/6/2016 7:17:23 PM EDT
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My GF took this earlier. Cell phone pic and we didn't want to get close. http://i.imgur.com/lQhVu8Q.jpg He looks to be in good shape. Also it's a red shouldered hawk, they are very noisy. |
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Posted: 8/6/2016 7:25:30 PM EDT
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Most likely it's still figuring it all out. How long has he been on the ground? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Is it fully feathered, and how long has it been on the ground? Fully feathered and only actually saw it a half hour ago but like I said the parents were pretty frantic last weekend. There were flying from tree to tree calling. That in itself doesn't mean they were looking for this particular bird. Maybe they were searching for another. They can be pretty vocal when the young leave the nest. Keep an eye out, if he seems hurt call DNR and they will give you a list of names to call. Will do, thank you. Just added a little info to the previous post. Most likely it's still figuring it all out. How long has he been on the ground? About an hour now that I positive about. One adult is about 200 yards opposite the nest. The other isn't visible. |
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Posted: 8/6/2016 7:26:10 PM EDT
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He looks to be in good shape. Also it's a red shouldered hawk, they are very noisy. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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My GF took this earlier. Cell phone pic and we didn't want to get close. http://i.imgur.com/lQhVu8Q.jpg He looks to be in good shape. Also it's a red shouldered hawk, they are very noisy. Thank you for proper ID
ETA I'm on the eastern side of Coloroda Springs CO so these ones are on the western end of their range according to Wiki. |
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Posted: 8/9/2016 11:57:58 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/10/2016 1:36:02 PM EDT
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WHO in the hell trims her beak? I want to see pics of that
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Posted: 8/10/2016 3:12:08 PM EDT
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WHO in the hell trims her beak? I want to see pics of that I'll end up doing it, most captive raptors, and parrots as well, need their beaks trimmed back now and again. They get a lot less wear on them in captivity than in the wild. |
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Posted: 8/10/2016 4:19:44 PM EDT
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Love this thread
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Posted: 8/11/2016 8:11:06 AM EDT
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Damn she gets more and more beautiful!
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Posted: 8/11/2016 8:27:32 AM EDT
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Just stumbled in here today. What cool sport.
Good for you OP. Shes a beautiful raptor. |
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