Falconry Quiz
1. A trait or characteristic of the Kestrel in the wild that carries over and becomes vice when it is trained in falconry is Soaring Warbling Carrying Preening
2. A malar stripe is likely to be found on A Peregrine A Passage Redtail A Coopers Hawk Great Horned Owl
3. A bird's "train" is their head foot wing tail
4. The sole member of the genus Parabuteo Harris Hawk Ferruginous Hawk Marsh Hawk Krider's Hawk
5. Untreated, Frounce is usually fatal within _____ days of the time symptoms mainfest one day two days ten days thirty days
6. After taking a nestling raptor, its ears should be inspected for Hearing ability Maggots Feather growth/damage Castings
7. During early training, "carrying" can be discouraged by fastening the lure to the ground forcibly removing food from the raptor quickly making into a rapto on its kill feeding on the fist only
8. The term "feak" means to allow a raptor to swallow/digest large piece of quarry without tearing cast a pellet wipe their beak against a perch or on a glove after feeding use their beak to straighten/clean feathers after a kill
9. Legal trapping season for passage birds in New York State is from September 1 - December 31 September 1 - January 15 September 1 - January 25 September 1 - February 15
10. The term a "good tiring" means feeding your raptor a bird wing with very little meat attatched to pick at flying your bird hard for two days in a row keeping your bird in a giant hood for an extended period of time flying your raptor in an open field
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