FALCONRY

PRINCIPLES & PRACTICE

By Roger Upton

Boards a little bumped and worn else clean. A good-plus first edition hardback.

1991 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 222mm). Pp240. B/w photographs and illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards. Issued without a dust-wrapper.

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"Falconry is the art of flying trained hawks at wild quarry in their natural environment. It is a spectacular but demanding sport, requiring commitment and dedication on the part of the falconer. In this book the author guides the reader through the principles of keeping, training and flying hawks, providing a wealth of ideas for practice and discussion on housing, management and flying at quarry. [This book] has up-to-date information on hawking furniture and on the technology available to falconers. Roger Upton has over 30 years' experience of falconry and has travelled all over the world in pursuit of sporting flights. He is a regular contributor to specialist magazines and is the author of several books on falconry." (Publisher's blurb).

Contents include:- Introduction (Suitable country for hawking; Acquiring skills; Obtaining hawks; Displays and exhibitions; Success and failure; Good practice); The hawk house, shelters and weathering ground (The hawk house; Shelters; Weathering ground; 'Sunlight and seclusion' pen; Baths; Block perches; Bow and ring perches); Falconry furniture (Gloves; Jesses; Swivels; Leashes; Bells and bewits; Hoods; Hawking bags; Hawking jackets; Carrying hoods when hawking; Lures; Hawking whistles; The creance; Transporting hawks; Weighing the hawk; Location-finding telemetry); Eyeasses, passagers, hacking and thoughts on training (The pros and cons of hacking; Passage hawks; The correct way to hold a hawk; Feeding a hawk on the fist; Early lessons; Flying your hawk loose for the first time; Flying to the lure); Flying out of the hood (Rook hawking; Crows; Jackdaws; Seagulls; Magpies); Hawking dogs (Breeds of dog; Dogs suitable for grouse hawking; Flushing game; Dog leads; Dogs suitable for partridge and pheasants); Game hawking (Grouse hawking country; The cost of grouse moors; Waiting-on; The first flight at quarry; The importance of flushing down wind; Waiting-on in hilly country; Correct serving of quarry; Positioning; Waiting-on over the dog; The kill; Grouse in cover; Number of flights; Hawking weather; Hawking at the end of the grouse season; Flying tiercels at grouse; Soaring versus waiting-on; Flying peregrines at grouse; Grouse hawking with gyrs; Flying other types of hawk at grouse; Black game and ptarmigan as quarry; Partridge hawking; Pheasant hawking; Snipe hawking; Woodcock hawking; Duck hawking); Glove and hood making (Gloves; Jesses; Hoods; Braces; Trimming; Lures); Patterns; Suppliers (Furniture; Telemetry); Further reading; Index.