Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Lesson

Falconer friend Andrea Chen sent this irresistible image of her baby goshawk tiercel absorbed in an interactive web lesson.


4 comments:

Matt Mullenix said...

My current Harris hawk pecked at pictures of birds in books while I was training him. Interestingly, he seem to recognize even etchings and line drawings of birds as "potentially edible."

Pluvialis said...

Mabel, too, recognised tiny line drawings of partridges and ignored non-gamebirds. I told Tim Birkhead this and he was all, "wow. Let's do an experiment!"

Andrea said...

Yeah, two of my passage redtails pecked at photos in the Audubon guide -- especially the barn owl: one of the RTs went right for the head. Raptors do have some pretty amazing pattern-matching skills.

Heather Houlahan said...

Kids today, just want to sit at home and play video games ...