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Question 1

How do you get them to come back?
A. Through natural affection and bond that form between falconer and hawk
B. By punishing them when they don’t.
C. By teaching them that they eat better when they hunt with you than on their own.
D. By rewarding them with tidbits each and every time they return to you.

Answer 1

C. By teaching them that they eat better when they hunt with you than on their own.

Question 2

Falconers must hunt with their hawks.
T/F

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Some falconers prefer to man newly-caught red-tails outdoors to avoid overheating.
T/F

Answer 3

False

Question 4

A hungry raptor will be trained more quickly than one which is not hungry
T/F

Answer 4

True

Question 5

A falconer prefers to be sharp-set before entering the field to hunt.
T/F

Answer 5

True

Question 6

Raptors are most effectively trained by a system of …
A. Punishment(causing fright or pain without injury).
B. Rewards(providing food for good progress).
C. Rewards and punishment.
D. None of the above

Answer 6

B. Rewards(providing food for good progress).

Question 7

Falconry hawks are trained to accept humans as their master and owner.
T/F

Answer 7

False

Question 8

Hawks should not be made too tame but should be encouraged to retain their wild nature.
T/F

Answer 8

False

Question 9

What should a new apprentice do upon arriving home with hi/her first trapped, hooded, socked, passage hawk?
A. The hard part is over. Relax. It’s been one hack of a day.
B. Take the hawk out of the car, unhood it, take the sock and masking tape off, and toss the hawk in the weathering area.
C. Take the hawk out of the car, weight it, log the weight, take the sock and masking tape off, and tether the hooded hawk in the mews. Then weight the sock and tether and duct tape and subtract their weight from teh overall recorded weight of the hawk. Fill out out the capture report, including the map of t he capture site and send it,completing the 3-186 online.
D. Listen to your Spencer’s and follow his/her instructions.

Answer 9

D. Listen to your Spencer’s and follow his/her instructions.

Question 10

Weight should be cut off a newly-captured passage re-tail quickly by starvation until. It is down to hunting weight.
T/F

Answer 10

False

Question 11

A passager or passage hawk is …
A. Any raptor taken on migration
B. A raptor taken on its first migration.
C. Any intermewed raptor.
D. None of the above

Answer 11

B. A raptor taken on its first migration.

Question 12

The most difficult aspect of manning a passage red-tail is….
A. Teaching it to stay on the fist.
B. Calming it and overcoming its natural distrust of humans.
C. Entering it to rabbits and hares.
D. Breaking its spirit.

Answer 12

B. Calming it and overcoming its natural distrust of humans.

Question 13

The major advantage of taking or capturing a passager is:
A. Once manned, it is nearly loss-proof.
B. The hawk has successfully hunted.
C. The hawk is in good physical condition.
D. Plenty of time is available in the day to work with the hawk.

Answer 13

B. The hawk has successfully hunted.

Question 14

The minimum amount of time the falconer should spend per day manning a newly trapped passage hawk is
A. Dependent on the amount of time a falconer has available before darkness.
B. Dependent upon the amount of time the falconer can get off work.
C. An hour a day.
D. Two hours per day.

Answer 14

C. An hour a day.

Question 15

Passage hawks and eyasses are manned and trained using the same methods.
T/F

Answer 15

False

Question 16

Eyass hawks are generally easier to hood than passage hawks.
T/F

Answer 16

False

Question 17

Hacking is a process whereby …
A. Young acceptors or red-tails are allowed to get fully summed in a large chamber.
B. young longwings are allowed full flight freedom until they begin to kill for themselves without the obvious presence of the falconer.
C. passage hawks are quickly manned by keeping them constantly awake.
D. phlegm is coughed up by a hawk with pneumonia.

Answer 17

B. young longwings are allowed full flight freedom until they begin to kill for themselves without the obvious presence of the falconer.

Question 18

if a falconer intends to take an eyass hawk, it is generally better to take a vert young eyass, and imprint it.
T/F

Answer 18

False

Question 19

A method for avoiding the aggression and territoriality associated with imprinting in an eyass red-tail is to …
A. slip food into its box or home when it is not looking and let it find the food.
B. Keep the hawk fat at least one month after it is hard-penned.
C. allow another falconer to the raise the hawk.
D. All the above

Answer 19

D. All the above

Question 20

The most difficult part f raising an eyass is …
A. Teaching it to fly
B. Feeding it
C. Teaching ti to hunt
D. avoiding all the imprinting

Answer 20

B. Feeding it

Question 21

The most frustrating part about taking an eyass…
A. Finding an occupied nest in a climbable tree.
B. Overcoming the parents’ aggressive defense of their offspring.
C. picking the eyass, getting it into the transport box or bag and back down the tree.
D. Finding there is only one eyass in the nest.

Answer 21

D. Finding there is only one eyass in the nest.

Question 22

The advantage(s) of raising an eyass is (are)…
A. It is easy to man.
B. You have plenty of time in the day to work with it.
C. It is easy to feed.
D. “a” and “b,” but certainly not “c”.

Answer 22

D. “a” and “b,” but certainly not “c”.

Question 23

One method of breaking a hawk of a bad habit of snatching food from the fist and bating is to…
A. feed the hawk rangle
B. retrain the hawk.
C. use a halsband to restrain the hawk from bating.
D. concel small amounts of Tobasco sauce or other foul tasting food in the carcass of a day old chick and allow the hawk to bate with it.

Answer 23

B. retrain the hawk.

Question 24

What length creance should apprentices use to verify that a red-tail is ready to be released for free flight?
A. Ten feet
B. ten Yards
C. Fifty feet
D. Fifty yards

Answer 24

D. Fifty yards

Question 25

You know your female red-tail hawk is ready to be released for free-flight when... A. Your sponsor says"it's ready". B. She comes to you which minimal hesitation when called to you from double the length of the creance. C. She comes to the lure instantly. D. All the above.

Answer 25

D. All the above.

Question 26

Lures must be used exclusively for retrieving the hawk from a dangerous situation. T/F

Answer 26

False

Question 27

During early training, carrying can be discouraged by... A. fasting the lure to the ground. B. using a brail. C. Forcibly removing food from the raptor D. Quickly Making in to a raptor on its kill.

Answer 27

A. fasting the lure to the ground.

Question 28

Yarak is utterly a function of a hawk's hunger. T/F

Answer 28

False

Question 29

Generally, it is a good idea to gorge your hawk on its first ten kills. T/F

Answer 29

False

Question 30

Your passage male reed-tail is mobbed by ravens on his first hunting release. H flies into a tall tree and refuses to come to you. You should... A. Go get a sleeping bag and plan to be there until dawn. B. Try to call the hawk down with a tidbit after a few minutes. C. Try to call the hawk down with the lure. D. Non of the above.

Answer 30

B. Try to call the hawk down with a tidbit after a few minutes.

Question 31

During a late afternoon hunt, your red-tailed hawk takes a field rat and carries it high into a heavily foliaged oak tree and begins to consume the prey. You should... A. Be patient. B. Try to call the hawk down with a tidbit. C. Try to call the hawk down the lure. D. Go get a sleeping bag and plan to be there until dawn.

Answer 31

C. Try to call the hawk down the lure.

Question 32

Late in the hunting season, you are hunting in your favorite field. the resident red-tails have become extremely aggressive over night and now "dive-Bomb your hawk. You surmise that they are a mated pair and you've been hunting their territory all along, but now they are trying to drive an intruding hawk from the vicinity of their nest. You should continue hunting there. You hawk isn't in competition with them.

Answer 32

False

Question 33

For the moult, a thirty ounce flying weight red-tail should be fed to... A. Thirty-six ounces B. Forty ounces C. Forty-five ounces D. Sixty ounces

Answer 33

A. Thirty-six ounces

Question 34

In buteos, parabuteos, and accipiters, mounting of the primary wing feathers... A. Starts with the innermost primary and proceeds n sequence to the outermost primary. B. Starts with outermost primary and proceeds inwards to the last one. C. Starts with the primary #4 and proceeds in the both directions. D. Proceeds in the irregular fashion but it is the same sequence on each wing.

Answer 34

A. Starts with the innermost primary and proceeds n sequence to the outermost primary.

Question 35

Falconer raptors moult in the same sequence as wild raptors, but less predictability T/F

Answer 35

True

Question 36

The best reason not to fly hawks during the moult is because... A. A hawk may injure itself by flying without all its feathers. B. A hawk may break a blood feather and bleed to death. C. it is too hard to see quarry when the leaves are on the trees. D. Feather growth demands energy-and hawks must be fed more than flying weight demands.

Answer 36

D. Feather growth demands energy-and hawks must be fed more than flying weight demands.

Question 37

During the moult, red-tails revert to the wild state. T/F

Answer 37

False

Question 38

Waiting-on flights should be made when soaring conditions are optimal.

Answer 38

False

Question 39

A good reason to stop flying your hawk before the vernal equinox(March 21) is the... A. Frequency of soaring weather. B. Resurgence of latent migration urges. C. end of cottontail hunting season D. All the above

Answer 39

D. All the above

Question 40

Apprentice falconers are most likely to lose their red-tailed hawks from... A. Incompetence B. Overconfidence C. Confiscation by a game warden for hunting out of season. D. being run off its quarry by a golden eagle.

Answer 40

B. Overconfidence

Question 41

Hawks that are lost follow their instinct. T/F

Answer 41

True

Question 42

After being truly lost, most hawks stay in the area where they were lost for while. T/F

Answer 42

True

Question 43

After losing their red-tail, the apprentice should... A. Go home, have a good cry and give up falconry. B. Go home and start planning how to get a replacement hawk. C. Tell no-one. they'll thing you're a fool. Return to the loss site the next day and attempt to call the hawk in with tidbits, the lure and a live, tethered pigeon. D. Go home, report to the sponger, call the local wildlife rehabilitation people, the local animal control, and local law enforcement to report the loss of the hawk. Following that, post rewards for information leading to the recovery of the hawk. Every day or twice a day for two weeks, visit the loss site, attempting to call the hawk n with tidbits, the lure and live, tethered pigeon.

Answer 43

D. Go home, report to the sponger, call the local wildlife rehabilitation people, the local animal control, and local law enforcement to report the loss of the hawk. Following that, post rewards for information leading to the recovery of the hawk. Every day or twice a day for two weeks, visit the loss site, attempting to call the hawk n with tidbits, the lure and live, tethered pigeon.

Question 44

After recovering the lost hawk, the falconer should.... A. hydrate the hawk immediately. B. weight the hawk. C. Take the hawk for a thorough physical examination. D. analyze, in detail, what lead up to the loss, and what lead to the successful recovery. E. All the Above

Answer 44

E. All the Above

Question 45

Third grade teacher down the street invites you o bing your red-tail hawk to his class to talk about it. You are a second year apprentice. You must... A. have written permission of the school district. B. Have the written permission of your sponsor. C. Have your sponsor or another general/master level falconer in attendance at your presentation. D. None of the above. enjoy yourself.

Answer 45

C. Have your sponsor or another general/master level falconer in attendance at your presentation.

Question 46

The Third grade teacher down the street seriously inquires about becoming a falconer. You have been friends long enough total hm hunting and has seen the daily effort you go through. You a second year apprentice and will upgrade to general at the exit cycle-about a month. He asks you to become his sponsor. you must... A. agree B. Inform him that as much as yo would like to, only third year generals and above may sponsor. C. Introduce him to your sponsor. D. "b" and "c".

Answer 46

B. Inform him that as much as yo would like to, only third year generals and above may sponsor.

Question 47

near the end of your first year as a falconer, your sponsor must relocate to the east coast to resolve family crisis. you have 30 days to find a new sponsor after the letter of termination is sent in. T/F

Answer 47

False

Question 48

You are asked the local rehabilitation service to recondition a red-tail for please to the wild. You are second-year apprentice. You are permitted to do this. T/F

Answer 48

False