barbary falcons

[skooky20]

i know this is alot to ask but is there any one out there with some really good photos of some adult barbary falcons. all of the photos i have seen online are not that good. the bird is always in the shade or in some goofy stance so i can't reall see it that well or it was a junk camera. my friend bought some barbarys this last spring and i won't get to see them after they molt. so please someone post a bunch of photos of some adult barbarys please.helpp

[Elinay]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3047/2580077836_f374b38dbf.jpg

Tiercel Barbary and I.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3280/2580096914_01803b9767_b.jpg

LoL, had to set him down a second... on the parrot perch!

A few pictures of his son, a Barbary/Prairie Hybrid.


http://farm1.static.flickr.com/99/254568657_b864cbe45d_b.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/108/315567221_980b7514ed_b.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/88/248580381_99ed45a016_b.jpg

[Rage]

Love the parrot perch, ha ha

[Tom Smith]

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Tiercel Barbary and I.


Elinay,

Beautiful and the barbary is to.

Tom Smith

[dirtwinger]

Skooky just go down to Tuscon I hear that Barbaries have been known to hang out outside 711's down there! Should be able to get all the pics want.toungeout

[idbirdman]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3047/2580077836_f374b38dbf.jpg

Tiercel Barbary and I.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3280/2580096914_01803b9767_b.jpg

LoL, had to set him down a second... on the parrot perch!

A few pictures of his son, a Barbary/Prairie Hybrid.


http://farm1.static.flickr.com/99/254568657_b864cbe45d_b.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/108/315567221_980b7514ed_b.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/88/248580381_99ed45a016_b.jpg

So whos birds are these? I thought you flew RT. When are you planning on moving to Idaho? Thanks Stephen

[awahl]

These are of my barbary in her first year. I will look and see if I can find some good ones of when she was an adult. I really think they are incredible looking falcons.

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s212/andywahl/iPhotoLibrary1388.jpg
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s212/andywahl/iPhotoLibrary1176.jpg
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[lcfalconer]

Great pics Andy!

I love Northern California. Sorry to get off the subject but in the first pic are those almond trees? I seem to remember they grafted the almond trees to trunks of some other type of tree???



Stephen:

In my avatar I’m holding one of your falcons. I forgot what kind it was???


Wayne

[Elinay]

These are of my barbary in her first year. I will look and see if I can find some good ones of when she was an adult. I really think they are incredible looking falcons.

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s212/andywahl/iPhotoLibrary1388.jpg
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s212/andywahl/iPhotoLibrary1176.jpg
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s212/andywahl/CopyofPicture_0334.jpg

Wow! Love them!

[idbirdman]

Great pics Andy!

I love Northern California. Sorry to get off the subject but in the first pic are those almond trees? I seem to remember they grafted the almond trees to trunks of some other type of tree???



Stephen:

In my avatar I’m holding one of your falcons. I forgot what kind it was???


Wayne
Hey Wayne, I think that was my hybred Smoke. How goes it? Any progress with moving out West? How is the family? Talk to you soon. Stephen

[awahl]

Thanks everyone. Yes they are almond trees. Lots and lots of those around here. That little barbary liked the big stuff more than the small. She had excellent manners, no screaming, no mantling, nothing. I originally got her for breeding, but sold her when I decided to give up the breeeding thing. Jason Jones was selling her again on Raptor's Nest a few weeks ago, but unfortulately, I just don't have the $$ to get her.

[lcfalconer]

Stephen,
Things are good and the family is great. I pretty much had a job lined up with IDOT but budget cuts put it on hold. We are still are doing every thing we can to make the move to Idaho. We'll get there one day, the sooner the better. We love Idaho!

Wayne

[awahl]

Not sure if any of these would fit into the "really good" category, but they are pictures of my barbary female. The last two are a friends 14 year old barbary.
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s212/andywahl/Picture_0025.jpg
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s212/andywahl/Picture_0030.jpg
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[falconer_39]

wow those are some really great pictures what kind of camera was used . very clear and sharp i think i need to replace my old digital camera mine are never that clear

[sharptail]

Hi Andy,

Pretty darn amazing a barbary taking mallards and drakes to boot! Can you give us an idea of the flying weight of the falcon and the ducks?

[wesleyc6]

Hi Andy,

Pretty darn amazing a barbary taking mallards and drakes to boot! Can you give us an idea of the flying weight of the falcon and the ducks?


I was thinking the same thing.

Also are the female barbaries as legendary for leaving the country as the males are?

[sharptail]

Mine was all over the sky for the first few months. She was definately a test of telemetry skill and equiptment. She tested the speed of every bird she saw. I still remember her stooping vultures that were a speck over the mountains in the summer heat and racing around the back(dirt) roads at 60, only to catch a fleeting glimse.

Great hawk, one of my all time favorites! She would catch it all, except for grouse and geese of course. The main problem is that they don't do well in cold weather.

[skooky20]

Thank you very much those are the best pics of adult barbarys i have ever seen. now i know what to look forward to when i try one some day.

[awahl]

The camera is just a Kodak with a large lens. It was a pretty good one five years ago, but nothing like the DSLR ones today.

She flew at about 570g, but could be flown real high without any real change in her flight. Although she didn't catch a lot of mallards, I can't remember her ever not trying them. She got her clock cleaned a number of times. She was pretty deadly on the small ducks when I could find them. Problem was that where I was living, there really weren't ducks till about Christmas, and it only left me with a one-month flying season. She caught quite a few pheasants her first year as well, but only the early season birds that weren't real tough yet.

I don't think that I ever remember tracking her down. She was pretty faithful all along. My friend’s bird was the same way, but he held the reigns pretty tight the first year, so it is to be expected. His bird was deadly on mallards. She caught them daily. Same flight weight as well.

I would really love to fly a barbary at huns in an ideal world. I think that they are the best looking, best built falcons out there. They really have a motor that is something else. I really enjoyed flying her.

[Dirthawking]

Is it just my imagination, or, is that a pretty bad crack in the beak on those last two pictures. Just out of curiousity, what caused it and how did it heal up?

[awahl]

I am not sure about the crack in the beak. The last two pictures are a friend's bird. It was about 5 years ago, and though I remember asking about it, I don't remember the cause or how it was fixed. I do know that one of my friends sealed a crack in a beak with epoxy. Not sure if that was the bird?

[GosGuy]

Elinay,

Loved your pic's of the tiercel Barbary/Prairie hybrid!

That seems like the perfect cross to hunt (off-the-fist) starlings and particularly the larger (when depredating) boat-tailed grackles we have jillions of in the winter in Texas!

Hoping that the Prairie influence would:

1) Mellow-out the tendency of tiercel Barbarys to fly all over creation their first year, and....

2) Contribute to a greater willingness to enter cover after panicked birds that have bailed-out....

The Barbary 1/2 would provide slightly smaller size/better agility/more speed/better "attitude" to the hybrid (compared to a pure Prairie tiercel), while maintaining the heat-tolerance and game-aggressiveness the Barbary (and Prairie) are noted for....

Elinay, who was the breeder of this tiercel Barbary/Prairie hybrid and how may I contact this person?

[Elinay]

Hey!

Thank you first off. I loved that little bird a lot!
The breeder is no longer breeding them, at the time no one was interested in that kind of hybrid, sadly!!! I will let him know more and more people are into it now and I am hoping to get him to produce some next season. :)




Elinay,

Loved your pic's of the tiercel Barbary/Prairie hybrid!

That seems like the perfect cross to hunt (off-the-fist) starlings and particularly the larger (when depredating) boat-tailed grackles we have jillions of in the winter in Texas!

Hoping that the Prairie influence would:

1) Mellow-out the tendency of tiercel Barbarys to fly all over creation their first year, and....

2) Contribute to a greater willingness to enter cover after panicked birds that have bailed-out....

The Barbary 1/2 would provide slightly smaller size/better agility/more speed/better "attitude" to the hybrid (compared to a pure Prairie tiercel), while maintaining the heat-tolerance and game-aggressiveness the Barbary (and Prairie) are noted for....

Elinay, who was the breeder of this tiercel Barbary/Prairie hybrid and how may I contact this person?

[barbary06]

The camera is just a Kodak with a large lens. It was a pretty good one five years ago, but nothing like the DSLR ones today.

She flew at about 570g, but could be flown real high without any real change in her flight. Although she didn't catch a lot of mallards, I can't remember her ever not trying them. She got her clock cleaned a number of times. She was pretty deadly on the small ducks when I could find them. Problem was that where I was living, there really weren't ducks till about Christmas, and it only left me with a one-month flying season. She caught quite a few pheasants her first year as well, but only the early season birds that weren't real tough yet.

I don't think that I ever remember tracking her down. She was pretty faithful all along. My friend’s bird was the same way, but he held the reigns pretty tight the first year, so it is to be expected. His bird was deadly on mallards. She caught them daily. Same flight weight as well.

I would really love to fly a barbary at huns in an ideal world. I think that they are the best looking, best built falcons out there. They really have a motor that is something else. I really enjoyed flying her.

Hello there,
first let me introduce myself, I come from Germany and fly barbaries now for a couple of years. Both of my barbaries are flown at huns mainly and also take on ducks and the female takes pheasants as well.Can't post any pictures?

[rembrandt]

http://www.mekshat.com/pix/upload03/images117/mk93668_11resized_dscn1293.jpg
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[rembrandt]

a treasure of barbary falcons with some peregrine falcons
we got them in one day in sahara
http://www.mekshat.com/pix/upload03/images117/mk93668_mk18465_dsc02828.jpg

[Saluqi]

That's very cool Rembrant. Would you mind please introducing yourself and signing your posts with your first name? It's one of the few rules around here. Thanks!

[tumble]

I don't know Paul...seems pretty keen on anonymity.

[rembrandt]

Would you mind please introducing yourself and signing your posts with your first name? It's one of the few rules around here. Thanks!

do i have to introduce my self with my first real name ???????????sorry but i prefer rembrandt he was a great Dutch artist so...he was better i guess
thanx and nice to meet u too paul
really i like the forum here

[sharptail]

Wow, will all of these falcons be used in falconry? It looks to be about 20 birds, were they all trapped at one location? What % are peregrine and what % haggards?

[rembrandt]

That's very cool Rembrant. Would you mind please introducing yourself and signing your posts with your first name? It's one of the few rules around here. Thanks!

male 30 years old from egypt

[Zarafia]

I count about twenty three there.
Are the ones that appear not to be tethered simply not tethered? I'm curious because my sakret has repetedly shown that he will try to fly hooded. Its not that he can see a little out of a poorly fitting hood. Nope, he will fly blindly toward the sound of your voice LOL.

[rembrandt]

Wow, will all of these falcons be used in falconry? l
nooo some of them only and the rest to the kitchen lol



I count about twenty three there.
Are the ones that appear not to be tethered simply not tethered? I'm curious because my sakret has repetedly shown that he will try to fly hooded. Its not that he can see a little out of a poorly fitting hood. Nope, he will fly blindly toward the sound of your voice LOL.

thats right frus
watch this it will help u to relax
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TH0TGGKf4o

[sharptail]

lol,What else is on the menu...western tourists? Where are your huabarra hawks?

[rembrandt]

lol,What else is on the menu...western tourists? Where are your huabarra hawks?

the western tourists for sure on the top of the menu spicialy if they r like u
and about the huabarra falcone >>>be nice first and pay latertoungeout

[sharptail]

I can play nice but expect it in return, All the best...Rembredt

[rembrandt]

l Where are your huabarra hawks?


I can play nice but expect it in return, All the best...Rembredt

some of hubarra falcons
http://www.mekshat.com/pix/upload03/images117/mk93668_resized_mk1168_20090407011.jpg
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http://www.mekshat.com/pix/upload03/images117/mk93668_resized_pwd64336.jpg

[sharptail]

Very nice!

[rembrandt]

Very nice!

some more for u coz u r nice:D
can i see ur falcons 2 plz??
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[Tanner]

Dude, you have flowers growing on your face. Bummer.

[tumble]

Jeff, before you post pictures make sure you remember to cover your head with purple lilacs.


Dude, you have flowers growing on your face. Bummer.

It's not just for hippies anymore.

[areal]

the western tourists for sure on the top of the menu spicialy if they r like u

How about a lizzard, did you ever eat a lizzard?

[areal]

I'm thinking some kind of recall lure perhaps????



http://www.mekshat.com/pix/upload03/images117/mk93668_resized_4444444444444444444.jpg

[rembrandt]

Dude, you have flowers growing on your face. Bummer.
they growing in my back 2


Jeff, before you post pictures make sure you remember to cover your head with purple lilacs.



It's not just for hippies anymore.
thats wisdom she must were so proud of u


How about a lizzard, did you ever eat a lizzard?

about the lizzard, u can ask her she will tell u coz she spent here with me in sahara 7 days and 6 nights even she can Describe everything 4 u , dont forget to tell her hello
ciao caro

[areal]

she spent here with me in sahara 7 days and 6 nights even she can Describe everything 4 u , dont forget to tell her hello
ciao caro
Yes but did she arrive morning or afternoon and when did you eat her?