Female peregrine x kestrel hybrid

This is "Sissy", my female peregrine x kestrel hybrid. She was raised by her mother, an Eurasian kestrel, in an open breeding pen. Therefore she is very tame, nearly like an imprint. When I took her out of the pen, she weighed 310 grams. Now she flies at 325 grams and there is still some place for muscles on her sternum. From all falcons I have seen in my life she has the most protruding sternum. She is shorter with a shorter tail than the other kestrel hybrids I had and I think that in adult plumage she will be a stunning bird. Unlike all the other kestrel hybrids I saw she has a very long, peregrine-like beak instead a typical kestrel beak Remarkable is her willingness to crush into the ground to catch something, even at high speed. Most be the kestrel genetics!

For Sale:Red-naped Shaheen x Calidus Tiercel

This tiercel named "Cali" was flown in a pigeon control project from the beginning of July 2008 till the beginning of October 2008. At the end the flying weight was around 500 grams. His father, a red-naped shaheen, can be seen on this site as well (on the block and in the bath). He looks like a miniatur calidus the size of a big red-nape tiercel! -

Female grey gyr x kestrel hybrid

Female grey gyr x kestrel hybrid from 2005. We bred European peregrine x kestrel hybrids as well. This year we will inseminate the female kestrel with semen from a red-naped shaheen. We are curious to see the size and colour of such a cross!

Dark peregrine tiercel

One of my very dark peregrines tiercels. Some have a dark orange front, this one has a grey-violet front. They all have very long fingers.

Peales x Gyr-Saker Tiercel

Unlike his older brother from 2006, who looked like an immature female prairie falcon, this peales x gyr-saker tiercel from 2007 looks like his father, a peales tiercel I bred myself in 2001. One of his sisters from the same year even looked like a black gyr hybrid. With birds like that you never know how they will look like, but I like the surprise!

Barbary Cross

This photo shows a tiercel peregrine x barbary cross that a friend of mine bred last year. Unfortunately he lost this bird. Was a nice waiting-on bird.

Immature Aplomados

My Aplomado falcons in 2005 when they still were immatures

"Carlito"

My tiercel Aplomado falcon when he was still a baby in 2005. Today "Carlito" was courtshipping the whole day.

"Bonnie"

The female peregrine shown on this photo is "Bonnie", a daughter of my peales tiercel "Joeson" and a huge female Scottish peregrine. "Bonnie" is an imprint bred by me in 2005. Last year she surprised me with 6 eggs at the age of two years! I am not used that such big peregrines lay before their third or fourth year! Unfortunately she did not stand to copulation and I did not want to catch and force her. This year she is very hostile, too. Somewhere I made a mistake in imprinting this bird. She is nasty and I have already plenty of scars from her.
I flew "Bonnie" in 2005. The weight of her first free flight was exactly 1000 grams. I flew her up to 1170 grams. Now in the pen she weighs 1250 during summer and 1350 to 1400 grams in December and January. She is some kind of monster peregrine. Shoulder to tail: 39,5 cm ; Breast: 42,5 cm. She is a really broad shouldered and stocky bird. I can only hope that she will accept copulation in the near future!

"Leandra"

The immature bird shown on this photo is "Leandra", a peales x dark Austrian peregrine cross. In 2007 I sold some peales peregrine semen to an Austrian falconer who bred this female. After the hunting season he had not enough place to keep her and therefore I bought her. He told me that he flew her at about 950 grams. Before I placed her in the pen for the moult she already weighed 1150 grams.

I really like her dark colour and her blue feet. Her father, "Joe", was a tiercel I bought and imported in 1994 from Joe Taggert, Idaho, USA. At that time the tiercel was 3 years old and had still blue feet when he arrived! He died in the autumn of 2007 two months before I bought back his daughter. In my breeding stock I have plenty of youngs and grandchildren from "Joe". His son "Joeson", a pure peales, too, is now my main stud bird. For more details of "Joe" go to the "peales" section.

White Saheen Tiercel

Just found another photo of my tiercel white shaheen. This evening I candled the eggs from this years first clutch and found out that all three eggs are fertile! As the 2007 tiercel on the photo, "Caramel", was my first bird out of this line, I wonder how this years´birds will look like, especially the females. I absolutely want to fly one this year.

Peales x Gyr-Saker Tiercel "Trib"

A photo of my peales x gyr-saker tiercel I bred in 2006. My first specimen of this line. Looked like a female prairie falcon in immature plumage. I flew him from summer 2006 to mid February 2008. Therefore he did not moult completely. I took him out of the chamber with 870 grams, started to fly him at 740 and now his flying weight is around 850 to 870 grams. He was reared by a couple of peregrines. In spring and summer he often soared out of sight but immediately came down in a full stoop when I threw him the lure. The longest stoop I measured was 27 seconds! At approx. 55 meters per second in a vertical stoop this makes a height of about 1600 meters ( 55 x 27 plus about 100 meters to pull out of the stoop).

The youngs from 2007 (2 tiercels and 3 females) looked much more like peregrines in immature plumage. The females went to Arabia, one tiercel to Italy and one tiercel stayed in Austria. From the last tiercel I heared that he became a very high flying waiting-on bird as well. I breed some of these tribreds every year.

Red-naped Shaheen

Here some photos of my imprinted tiercel red-naped shaheen from 2006. He gives good semen that I use to inseminate different peregrine females. Especially the red-naped shaheen x Austrian peregrine are small but beautiful hunting falcons.

White Shaheen

Just wantet to show you a photo of my so-called white shaheen line. I started to select the parents for this breeding project in 1994 and it took me 13 years to breed the first tiercel that is up to my expectations. On the photo the very pale colour, esp. of the head, can be seen as well as the broad wings that make this tiercel uncredibly fast.I took him out of the breeding pen with 500 gr and started to fly him with 420 gr. At the end of the season I flew him with 520 gr.