Falconry Aprentice Study Guide Questions with Correct Detailed Answers New Update
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Falconry Aprentice Study Guide Questions with Correct Detailed Answers New Update
Which of the following objects would function best as an anchor for a new apprentice's red-tail on a creance?
a. a pair of old running shoes
b. a goal post
c. a tree
d. the falconer's hand - Answer- The f...
Falconry Aprentice Study Guide
Questions with Correct Detailed
Answers 2024-2025 New Update
Which of the following objects would function best as an anchor for a new apprentice's
red-tail on a creance?
a. a pair of old running shoes
b. a goal post
c. a tree
d. the falconer's hand - Answer- The falconer's hand. The trainer should use a strong
but light line and attached the free end to something that will gradually slow the hawk
and bring it to the ground.
True or false. A well-padded horseshoe is an acceptable lure for a longwing. - Answer-
False. Although classic works recommended this and similar items, modern falconers
take a dim view of this device. In training it is necessary for longwings to strike the lure
in the air and a heavy lure is not only difficult to swing properly but it likely to discourage
the hawk. The weight of the lure should not be more than the weight of a pidgin - about
eight ounces.
In the field, it is important to have the following equipment. . . - Answer- The lure is the
one truly indispensable piece of field equipment. An escaped or reticent hawk can be
taken when a lure is available.
True or false. A lure with weight attached is almost always preferred to a one-piece lure.
- Answer- True. The falconer should always hold onto the lure line. Should the hawk rip
the lure and lure line away from the falconer it is true that a swinging weight will always
bring a hawk to the ground faster than a heavy lure with a weightless handle.
True or false. Tough, stringy meat should not be used to garnish a lure. - Answer-
False. Tough stringy meat is best for tying to lures as it stays there and is not so quickly
eaten.
True or false. A good recovery lure for a red-tail closely resembles the hawk's normal
prey. - Answer- False. Or more like "not-necessarily." As long as the red-tail, or any
hawk for that matter, learns that she is going to get a full crop when she sees her
normal lure, the lure can be any shape.
Bells are most needed. . . - Answer- when the hawk is down with quarry.
, True or false. Ideally, when a pair of bells is selected, both should produce identical
tones. - Answer- False. Bells with two different metals and two different frequencies
(commonly, a half-tone apart).
True or false. The life of hawk bells can be lengthened by cooking the bells on a hot
plate. - Answer- True.
True or false. A passage red-tail should be flown with the largest size bells possible. -
Answer- False. Some falconers, including the editor, use the smallest bells possible.
The point of the bells is to be heard.
True or false. When a plastic cable-tie is used as a bewit, it should be fastened around
the tarsus. - Answer- False. A bewit is a small leather strip used to secure a bell or
telemetry transmitter to a hawk's leg.
True or false, When flying a red-tail, telemetry is more important than bells. - Answer-
False. Telemetry is hardly ever used with these hawks as their hunting style keeps
them, generally, close to the falconer who can track the hawk by the sound of the bells.
A "yagi" is . . . - Answer- a hand held telemetry antenna. Reception range is usually a
quarter to seven miles if both hawk and falconer are on the ground and fifteen miles or
more when used from an aircraft or if the hawk is high up in the air.
A telemetry signal is likely to be strongest when the antenna is held. . . - Answer-
Vertically when the transmitter whip is hanging vertically.
A traditional instrument used to stop a hawk from bating was the . . . - Answer- Brail.
Bating is the raptor's attempt to escape from the falconer's fist, or from a perch, being
attached as it is by jesses or tethered with a leash. The Brail is a soft leather thong
formerly used to bind one wing of a hawk to prevent bating, but is rarely used by
modern falconers.
The minimum legal requirement for maintaining a captive raptor are.... - Answer- A. A
perch, bath, Aylmeri jesses, scales.
B. perch, scales, bath, leash. swivel, and mews.
Before you get your license, much less a hawk you are required by law to have the
following: 1) A bath-pan, 2) Aylmeri jesses with grommets, 3) a swivel, 4) a mew 5)a
leash, 6) an out door perch, and 7) scales.
Before taking the falconry test, beginners should know about... - Answer- a. what kind of
hawk (kestrel or red-tail) to begin with.
b. how and where to house the hawk.
c. what and where to hunt
d. how to transport the hawk
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