How to Train... Your Falcon — Transcript

Full transcript

1. 0:00whenever I'm ready whenever you're ready
2. 0:01lesson number one you can look at the
3. 0:09true art of falconry is training awhile
4. 0:11Falcon to hunt its natural quarry but
5. 0:14with the falconer so it's my hunting
6. 0:17companion the rifle only arrived in the
7. 0:19Middle East about 400 years ago falconry
8. 0:21has been available for for far longer
9. 0:23there was a different rifle it was a
10. 0:25different way of going on and then all
11. 0:27the desert to go and hunt to provide
12. 0:30food for the family
13. 0:31what is it what is it day one training
14. 0:33step oneness I need my Falcon to get
15. 0:35used to me show the Falcon that I'm not
16. 0:37a threat and this will be constant
17. 0:39handling constantly touching to
18. 0:41Constantine holy working with feeding
19. 0:42and so once we've managed the first step
20. 0:45which is called Manning then we move to
21. 0:47the second step where I asked the Falcon
22. 0:49to do something small what the Falcon on
23. 0:51a certain distance and I call him when
24. 0:54he comes to me I'll give him his reward
25. 0:55father of reinforcements every time
26. 0:57that's something I'll reward him and
27. 0:59then we expand that so we start off with
28. 1:02let's say a meter then we go two meters
29. 1:05now I'm forcing him to fly then he needs
30. 1:07to fly three meters six so we double it
31. 1:09and we double it until we get to a point
32. 1:11where I don't even need to pull him I
33. 1:13don't even need to be able to see him
34. 1:16because he'll be able to see me if I
35. 1:18left up my hand and I call him or I give
36. 1:20him the cue and he comes then I know all
37. 1:23right
38. 1:23the Falcon is well enough trained for me
39. 1:25to go to the next step which is
40. 1:27obviously the hunting part you want to
41. 1:30train it the way it would naturally hunt
42. 1:31up in the world Falcon is normally fly
43. 1:33up in high skies wait for something to
44. 1:35fly underneath closes wings form a
45. 1:38little teardrop to fall out of the sky
46. 1:39Wow
47. 1:40take out their prey Wow hawks and eagles
48. 1:42are different because of they bolt holes
49. 1:45got longer legs shorter wings fat so
50. 1:48they've got more agility so for them to
51. 1:52fly in between trees they need to be
52. 1:54able to grab where their long wings
53. 1:55worth birds of prey we believe and
54. 1:59movement of each species because it just
55. 2:01makes the rehab so much easier let me
56. 2:04keep you active in your natural behavior
57. 2:06because when you get released
58. 2:08obviously second nature Piscotty