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Published: 2015-11-22 22:01:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 3232; Favourites: 272; Downloads: 0
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This is my new juvenile male Red Tailed Hawk, Thief.
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Ha, yea he sort of does
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He's very handsome. So you caught him from the wild?
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Is it difficult to keep them then? I remember when I first watched a falconry show at the Ren Faire the guy was saying it takes seven hours of staring at them to get them to eat your food offering.
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It really depends on the bird. A good general rule is that you want to spend at least an hour a day with your bird, even more if it's still in training. A lot of our birds are so used to things that we don't need to spend as much time with them anymore, though we handle every bird every day. Our lives revolve around the birds, their accommodations come first. They all have a chamber to stay in during the day with a perch and clean water. We have to make sure we have plenty of food around. We have to be careful of what's around them as there are quite a few thing that could cause them to have respiratory problems.
Some birds can be really stubborn when you first get them. Thief ate food almost immediately, but we had a bird that refused to eat for 14 days. We had to force feed him to make sure his digestive system didn't shut down on him. Most birds eat after being a captive audience after about a day or so.
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Interesting. What can give them respiratory problems?
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The main issues are stuff like mold and fungi. They have very sensitive lungs, so it's very easy for them to become ill. The biggest issue is what's called Aspergillosis. It's basically a fungus that grows in the lungs. They can get it from anything from anything that could be moldy or hold fungus spores.
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Is that a risk for birds in general or just birds of prey?
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It's a risk for birds in general, but you see it very often with birds of prey since sometime they have more stress to deal with during the beginning of training. Just about any bird in the wild will have asper spores in their system, but the stress can lower their immune system allowing the spores to grow and asper to develop. Captive pet birds don't usually have the same exposure.
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I always thought it was interesting how stress can hurt the health of birds by so much.
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stress can hurt everyone and everything.
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So true. It's a good thing we're finally realizing it and making accommodations, though.
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Yea, these guys can be incredibly fragile.
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Great shot and congrats on the new bird! How did you manage to get such a great shot? I can never get head on shots in focus.
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Thanks!
It took some patience for sure. I was doing vertical jumps with him so that when he jumped down, I had time to get my camera up and aimed at him. I had it on auto focus too since I only had one hand. The only ones that were in focus were the ones I took just as he was taking off. Whenever he picked up momentum, my camera just couldn't keep up with him.
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It turned out really nice! Do you use single point or multi point focus? And ALFOCUS or ALSERVO? I bounce between both, I don't know which is better for flight photos.
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Thanks! I would have to double check but I think I have it set to single point, right in the center. I don't change my settings often at all. I mainly keep it on SERVO. The one photographer from the faire suggested I use it when I asked him about how he gets the shots of Ulysses flying straight at him in focus. I like it because it continues to focus as the bird moves.
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Thanks, I will have to try sticking with those settings and just practice more. I was bounce back and force between those diffrent settings. Trying to figure out what worked the best.
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Good luck! I'm sure you'll get it in no time.
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What a wonderful and unique pose!! I love the focus, it's really something else!
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Thank you very much!
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Perfect timing 
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Very fine photo, Cryss. Great capture, majestic animal.
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Thank you very much!
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