Michael Beran

Michael Beran is a Master Falconer from Bossier City, Louisiana. He became a falconer in 2003 and has been a NAFA member since 2004. He has trained and hunted with passage Red-tailed Hawks, passage and captive bred Harris Hawks. His current hunting team is a cast of Harris’s Hawks. He enjoys attending NAFA meets, traveling and hunting with his hawks, and hunting with other Harris’s Hawkers. Michael has also organized and conducted training workshops for apprentices of the Texas Hawking Association and the Arkansas Hawking Association.
Michael holds a Special Purpose Abatement permit and performs various types of abatement projects. He has imprinted and uses primarily Saker Falcons for this work. He has also trained and used his Eurasian Eagle Owl and European Buzzard for conservation education and film industry work. Michael’s raptor experience started at the early age of eight, when he rehabilitated everything from Barn Owls to Red-tailed Hawks.
Michael is the owner and manager of A All Animal Control of Northwest Louisiana, a business that conducts nuisance wild animal control in Louisiana. He can arrange his schedule to be available for all NAFA meetings and other NAFA duties. He is very fortunate because his lovely wife, Bonnie, and two sons, Chance and Michael David fully support his commitment to falconry and NAFA.
His leadership experience includes his current service as Vice President of the Louisiana Chapter of Nuisance Wildlife Control Operators of America. He is also on the Editing Board for Wildlife Damage Management at the University of Nebraska, and has authored chapters in wildlife management books. For the past four years, Michael has been the Scout Master for Troop 205 in Bossier City, Louisiana.
As Southeastern Director, he would work toward the following goals. He would do everything in his power to assist the southeastern states with the adoption of the revised falconry regulations. One priority here is to ensure that states reciprocate with respect to travel, moving to, and hunting in other states. He would also lobby for legalization of a Peregrine Falcon to take in all southeastern states where it is not permitted now but could be. As your Director, Michael would engage the southeastern members as much as possible, and include reports from falconers and clubs in his Director reports. Michael’s impression is that the average NAFA member finds the leadership aloof and not concerned enough with hunting issues. He will strive to make NAFA into something all falconers want to be a part of, and encourage non-member falconers to join NAFA. He will also urge NAFA to make hunting the first priority for NAFA meets. He will encourage NAFA to develop more training materials for apprentices and to offer apprentice workshops. Also, Michael plans to help organize such training in the southeast directorate. As your Director, he will encourage NAFA to get more young people involved in falconry. He has never been convicted or plead guilty or nolo contendere to any felony of whatever kind, or any misdemeanor falconry or wildlife related activity.