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The classic King's flight is an attack on quarry on passage. So the key to the set up is to release your falcon from down wind of the quarry who is flying to a distant destination over open ground. ...

The two main obstacles for encouraging a ringing flight are: 1. quarry goes to cover and doesn't get caught. The CR "to ground" solves that problem. 2. Ringing quarry often employ flying at the...

That article is from California Hawking, Vol. 21, #3, Dec. 1991. The funny thing is that it took me about 20 years to realize that it worked for all King's flights (heron, crane, rook) also. I...

I found after years of failures and a few successes I needed to put the ringing flight into a teaching model. It turned out shaping the "to ground" behavior to a high repeatable rate was all that...

I can't overstate the fact of the dead lure and PVC pipe with 60 "to ground" trials accomplishes the exact mindset for the merlin that you describe. Besides ringing flights my unhacked eyass merlins...

The beauty of the CR allows you to train a behavior that is not usually common in the wild. Merlins don't ring quarry in the wild because the quarry just gets away in the bushes most of the time. ...

Sorry about the back and forth. The hiding the dead lure in the PVC pipe works so easily for the merlins that I wanted to show how that is done. I used the mini backyard frozen lure stuff for...

II. Crow Hawking(mini): Using a dead frozen crow lure, suspend it about 10 feet off the ground. From about 100 feet away unhood the falcon and let her fly and bind to the frozen lure. Whistle(CR)...

Ringing Flights-- Falcons can physically easily out fly all the traditionally pursued quarry such as houbara, crane, heron, crow, rook, seagull and skylark. It is the falconer's job to completely...

Let me organize my thoughts and post details tomorrow. Tonight I just want to set the stage. How to Teach Animals by Skinner in the 1951 December Scientific America and The Art of Falconry by...

Training a hood-fearing hawk: Stop all other training goals and just concentrate on teaching good hooding behavior. Use about 3 training sessions each day with about 20 successful trials(CR,...

The beauty and power of positive reinforcement: Operate conditioning model: The hawk freely operates on her environment using her behaviors to get rewarded. Your hawk is actively experimenting...

Osprey nest on almost every ballpark lighting poles in central Wyoming. There are tens of thousands of large cottonwoods along the river, but I haven't seen a tree nesting one. That is nest...

Ron, I am so excited that you are using and testing a signalling device prototype. I could write a small users manual for its use and applications. Waiting on training is a perfect behavior to...

The problem with a light is that the raptor has to be looking at you the second they are doing the good behavior. I would much rather they be concentrating on their complex job and be habituated to...

Hi Ron, I am so excited that you see this as a powerfull raptor training tool. I don't think $200 to $500 dollars is too much. I would easily pay $1000 and I am poor. I am not familiar with the...

The device's components would be a beeper, battery, and a remote controlled on/off switch that would stay on for like 3 or 4 seconds. If falconers only knew the power of a CR to teach new and/or...

Can anyone make a remote signalling device for use on a backpack? I invision a less than 10gm backpack mounted remote beeper with a line of sight range of 1500 ft. I could press a button to reward...

When shaping new behaviors the most important part that is often forgotten is to use the CR(signal bird within ONE second of good behavior). The titbit can be seconds later. Shaping operant...