3.2 Flashcards
Hunting, Game and Quarry (35 cards)
You enter your hawk…
A. When it is unfamiliar with the surrounding landscape.
B. When it is unfamiliar with a particular quarry.
C. Before registering at a falconry meet.
D. Before transporting it in an unfamiliar container.
B. When it is unfamiliar with a particular quarry.
At certain point s during the training process of hawks, it is necessary and beneficial to use trussed-up or otherwise handicapped incapacitated poultry, game birds, or rabbits as bagged game or baggies(also known in older literature as trains or trainees) as recommended by books of classic falconry.
T/F
False
The scream of an eyass hawk or the jingle of the hawk’s bells frighten quarry from the field and forest.
T/F
False
It is safe to allow your red-tail to all all the prey it attacks.
T/F
False
When striking, a hawk’s head, body and feet are going different speeds.
True
Your red-tail strikes and binds to a cottontail in early April in California. You may allow your hawk to feed from the quarry then abandon the carcass in the field.
T/F
True
You are reclaiming and conditioning your intermixed red-tail by having her follow on, as you have just taken her up from moult and you feel she is not in good enough condition to really hunt. Her weight is high, and you are just flying the extra ounces off her. You have a live-lure with you “just in case”. A game warden approaches and asks to see your falconry and hunting licenses and written permission to hunt….
A. Require the game warden to show you a search warrant.
B. Explain that since you aren’t really hunting, you don’t need to renew the hunting license yet.
C. Show the licenses and permission to hunt to him.
D. None of he above
C. Show the licenses and permission to hunt to him
Your hawk chases a cock pheasant for several hundred years and it puts in to cover. The hawk then perches above the cover. If you flush the pheasant again, the hawk is likely to take him in the air.
T/F
True
A longwing at high altitude is more likely to take a …
A. Mallard duck who breaks from the flock in a steep climb over land.
B. Mallard duck who breaks from the flock and drops low over the lake.
C. Cock pheasant who remains on the ground and offers to fight.
D. Homing pigeon flying in a small tight flock.
A. Mallard duck who breaks from the flock in a steep climb over land.
A speeding duck is as loathe to fly into trees or brush as a longwing.
T/F
True
Most types of waterfowl are more difficult for a hawk to take than are upland game birds such as pheasants, partridge, and grouse.
T/F
True
The swiftest shot-winged hawks early catch waterfowl in a tail chase.
T/F
True
Falconers can hunt ducks any time any place.
T/F
False
The live lure should…
A. Never be used
B. Be used only in an emergency.
C. Be used whenever the raptor fails to take quarry.
D. Be used when no wild quarry can be produced.
B. Be used only in an emergency.
Falconer should never allow a hawk to kill a live-lure because it …
A. Is unethical.
B. Reflects poorly on the sport of falconry.
C. Can ruin a hunting hawk.
D. All of the above
D. All of the above
In reacting to the right of an attacking raptor, domestic pigeons are likely to…
A. Seek cover of trees, lofts and buildings whether is an accipiter or longwing.
B. Seek cover if the attacking raptor is a longwing, but sky up if it’s an accipiter.
D. Ignore the approach of either genus until is too late.
B. Seek cover if the attacking raptor is a longwing, but sky up if its an accipiter.
Most feral or domestic pigeons fly faster than any kind of upland or migratory game bird.
T/F
True
Ground quarry taken by your red-tail is safe for human consumption.
T/F
True
Female red-tailed hawks are too big and clumsy to hunt squirrels in trees.
T/F
False
Red-tails can never beg hunted in cast.
T/F
False
You hunt cottontails with a male red-tail. They are…
A. Easy quarry male red-tail to catch.
B. Easy quarry for male red-tail to kill.
C. Difficult for a male red-tail to catch.
D. “b” and “c”.
D. “b” and “c”.
Your passage female red-tail takes a squirrel on her first free flight after capture. You…
A. Make in quickly, dispatch the quarry and take it away from her.
B. Make in deliberately, identify and dispatch the quarry, let her have it and clip a leash on.
C. Do nothing as know you are supposed to let her gorge on her first ten kills, at least. When she is completely stuffed, pick her up.
D. Make in slowly, cowl if you have to and clip a leash on a jess; when sh has full crop, pick her, collect the quarry and go home.
B. Make in deliberately, identify and dispatch the quarry, let her have it and clip a leash on
Jacks are easy prey for male red-tails to catch and kill.
T/F
False
Your Kestrel has captured a starling feeding at the edge of a woodlot and struggling to gain the control of it. You should…
A. Stand at a distance and allow the kestrel room to work.
B. Call you friends on your cell phone to brag
C. Make-in as soon as possible to assist the Kestrel.
D. Stand nearby, ready to transfer the Kestrel to the lure.
C. Make-in as soon as possible to assist the Kestrel.
