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Post by BlueTiercel on Jul 14, 2005 20:53:46 GMT -5
Anyone ever seen one of these in the wild or being used in falconry? I would love to see one. Must be an awesome bird. Fill me in!
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Riker
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Post by Riker on Jul 15, 2005 12:45:00 GMT -5
Yea there is a guy in amarillo Tx that has a male ferug i didnt really get to see it hunt but i got to see if fly alot. Its weight was a little high and he didnt want to hunt. the thing with a ferug is they love to fly and fly long distances, he has to chase his bird on a regular basis over two miles bc he will see something he wants to kill and go get it. (it hunts mostly from a soar). but awsome birds for this part of the country with open feilds with lots of jacks
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Post by Weasel on Jul 16, 2005 14:40:07 GMT -5
I went out with a few folks from MN at the NAFA meet and I got to watch a ferrug take a jack at about two hundered yards off. They tend to be very picky about what slip they take as we jumped about 10 jacks under our feet before it finally watched one run into the plowed field for about 100 yards and away the bird went. The Jack was running full blast across the field and the ferrug just smoked it. By the time we got there the jack was well dead from the female ferrugs feet.
I think I have some pictures of this hunt. I will try to find them and post them to the site.
Weasel
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Post by BlueTiercel on Jul 18, 2005 20:57:39 GMT -5
Sounds like quite the flight Noel. How much bigger than the Red tail is the ferrug anyway? Compared to an RT what would you say about them, size, tempermant, feet, style on and on. From your observations. thank you.
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Post by Weasel on Jul 19, 2005 7:57:37 GMT -5
Well, Let's see. From what I saw on these two Females at the meet, they where both imprinted birds, they where both VERY vocal to the point of needing ear plugs(Not kidding!). They where about a 1/3 bigger than a female RT. They have a feathered tarsus so the legs look bigger, but the feet where smaller than an RT's. The toes where fat and stubby but posessed a great deal of gripping power that killed a jackrabbit within seconds. They are very fast on the wing as I stated before that I watched one fly down a jack that had a 100 yard head start and the ferrug caught it like it was no big deal
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Post by harrishawker2 on Mar 1, 2006 6:20:27 GMT -5
hi to u all i have flown both the male and female over here in england .they were both exellent at soaring but i could never get the male to take any form of quarry tried every thing with him for 4yrs without any succes.But the female on the other hand was fantastic at hunting one of the problems we have in the north of england is alot of wet weather and unfortunatly the ferruginous has very little waterproofing
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Post by allard on Jul 4, 2006 15:46:37 GMT -5
hi to u all i have flown both the male and female over here in england .they were both exellent at soaring but i could never get the male to take any form of quarry tried every thing with him for 4yrs without any succes.But the female on the other hand was fantastic at hunting one of the problems we have in the north of england is alot of wet weather and unfortunatly the ferruginous has very little waterproofing how do you teach them too soar ? |
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rampager98
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Post by rampager98 on Sept 28, 2007 20:39:07 GMT -5
I have a question to the ones that have flown a ferrug. How much did you have to feed your bird to maintain its weight?
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