Asiatic Collared doves are becoming very common here in Southern Idaho. Not protected and I suspect delicious. Lovely birds. Non-native, but don't seem to be "invasive". Trouble is, they hang with the Mourning doves in town. Both species have found that dodging the house cat is worth the risk to get the bird feeders.
Oh, to watch an Aplamado sort one out in mid-air !
are thoes the same as euro collared doves? cause if so they are plentiful here also, so. texas, and they make a white wing dove look like a sparrow. now i dont see them with other birds unless with other collared doves, and they are hi on a telephone pole also not on the ground like morning doves. might be different region of the country.
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Post by harrishawker on Aug 16, 2010 15:52:22 GMT -5
Over here Ringed doves are game but white doves are not.
I have seen some fantastic chases by Small male Harris Hawks. My pere/gyr/saker was good at them but i hated it if he straight lined them i had to then tighten my laces ready for a long sprint
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HHer you guys have a wood pigeon or something like that, and it is huge isnt it? huge compared to a standard pigeon. how does a HH or falcon pair up with it?
when you say white dove do you mean an "albino" looking dove?
Not a lot of people hawking lanners in the US from what I have seen, and I have never heard of them being flown on dove.
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Post by profalconer on Oct 20, 2010 21:30:22 GMT -5
My boss had a male lanner that caught a few dove in an ambush flight he told me about. Didn't sound like anything special to me. Not too many people want to spend $3500 to try a bird that isn't well known for north american falconry. Most stick to barbaries, prairies, peregrines, merlins and small hybrids. Especially with prices that vary from $0-1500
Post by Master Yarak on Oct 21, 2010 11:03:37 GMT -5
I know a falconer who has hunted dove with a female lanner. It can be done if you are serious I would get a pointer of some breed. That will help out a great deal. Yarak
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Well let's just say in a hypothetical situation. You were getting one for free.(I am). it might be worth the effort to give it a go and see what is and isn't possible
Let us know how it goes!
"...no hobby should either seek or need rational justification. To find reasons why it is useful or beneficial converts it at once from an avocation into an industry, lowers it at once to the ignominious category of an exercise undertaken for health, power or profit." -Aldo Leopold
Well let's just say in a hypothetical situation. You were getting one for free.(I am). it might be worth the effort to give it a go and see what is and isn't possible
Dan Cover was extremely successful on dove with a pair of tiercel Peregrines flown together. He wrote many articles and a book on the subject that could probably be found with a lil digging.