Very good goshawk article

[Moses]

http://proeco.visti.net/naturalist/falconry/gshwk.htm

[Wilfred]

http://proeco.visti.net/naturalist/falconry/gshwk.htm

yes this article is indeed very good! In fact I wanted to post this one on the forum some week ago...but could not find the link back in my favourites. The reason why i wanted to post: it is mentioned in the text of this link that somewhere in Russia they fly goshawks in some way of waiting on style! just read it. Very interesting.

[Moses]

nice one and your welcome mate :)

[Pete Sibson]

Very good read, its not very often you can get good reading like that these days.

Thanks, Pete.

[Tomkuzma]

good article....but one thing is a little bit weird - " The maximum wingspan of a Goshawk female is 395 mm, of a male - up to 348 mm (Воїнственський, Kістяківський, 1962). "....it is probably a mistake because I don't believe there is a goshawk with more than 3 metres (nearly 4m) wingspan.

[Moses]

yeah mate must have been a mistake and the lad got his calculations wrong :D he must have been drunk and measured an eagle of some type

[Sprout]

It is mm not cm! 395mm is 39.5cm = 0.395m.

[Moses]

i luv this quote in it mate, its a remarkable bird i luv em


quote
“For a true falconer, owning a Goshawk is a dream. It’s a hard worker. Where with a falcon you would get a couple of birds, with a goshawk you will take all five”.

[SakerYZF]

Good article :D

[Chris Hawke]

"putting the hawk on a circle" interesting!

[Ned]

Wits happening here with all these threads,Moses 2005 last time he was on he could've been Moses.
And we won't mention the washed meat either.