Quote Originally Posted by nebli View Post
I have another explanation that could maybe answer that ?

have you notice how chicken independently of food do chirp all the time
that is a way of keeping always contact with their mother.

so do goshawks in the nest when the parents are around( that's precisely one way of finding them)
so it is a way of mantaining the parent's bonding strong and ..necer turning adult. which happens in the wild when dispersal takes place.

don't know if you practice this , I saw a method in the UK:

that is imprinting goshawks are reared by 2 austringers , each rearing each other's hawk and giving it back when hard penned , they do are imprint but don't show the screaming , and particularly the agressive behavior that many imprints show.
That is very much what happens when one takes a passage bird. The passage bird is an imprint on it's parents as all birds are. We can assume the passage bird was for a time a screamer and when it is taken by a falconer it quits screaming with the change of parent and address. You have probably seen a passage bird that it will scream at a passing adult of it's species and may even mantle and flutter it's wings a little, in an attempt to return to it's roots.