Duzy my Female Finnish Goshawk – Duck Hunting Partner
2 Juvenile (50 day old) Male North American Goshawks that were release (Tame Hacked) every morning on my property for 21 straight days, to spend the day out and about to develop their flying skills, as a part of their training program.
My Female Gyrmado (Hybrid Gyr x Aplomado Falcon) used for FBBA and Lure Flying Demonstrations
Male Harris’s Hawk working to harass starlings and sparrows on a FBBA assignment in Hoboken, NJ
My Female Barn Owl in her Chamber
HOUSING: All of my birds are “Free-Lofted” (allowed to fly around) in “Chambers” on my property.
RESCUE: Great Horned Owl entangled in backyard soccer net and being harassed by a mob of crows, that I removed and release on site, after being contacted by a local police department.
My “Ridge Trapping Blind” where I trap and band raptors each fall as they are migrating to spend the winter in southern locations.
Passage (juvenile) Red Tailed Hawks Trapped, Banded and Released
Adult Coopers Hawk – Trapped, Banded and Released
Mist Net – Beach Trapped Female Passage (juvenile) Peregrine
Examples of the Kestrel, Barn Owl and Screech Owl Nest Boxes I install and monitor.
CONSERVATION: Screech Owls are fairly common and found in areas with a concentration of hardwood trees. On my 4 acre property, I have 5 nest boxes. Every year for the past 20 years at least one of the boxes has produced chicks, and one year I had 3 of them that were utilized and produced young.
Kestrel’s traditionally nested in cavities of dead trees found in the middle of wide opened fields. These days it is becoming more and more difficult for them to find appropriate placed to nest. The installation of appropriately placed nest boxes is important in terms of helping to turn around their decline in numbers that has occurred over the last 2 decades.
I installed this Barn Owl Nest Box within a Barn Cupola
There’s nothing better than introducing and getting kids involved with Raptor Conservation
