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!
3/30/2008
"Bonnie"
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"
White Saheen Tiercel
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
3/23/2008
White Shaheen
