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The History of Falconry in Britain – Part Three
The mid-20th Century to the present day In the 1950s and 60s, wild populations of raptors were decimated by the use of pesticides in Britain
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Experience Days will be taking place until the end of November, and will commence again in February 2023. Our Scheduled Beginner Courses are held each month and we start again in February 2023. Dates for the first half of the year can be found on the Beginner Course page on this site
The Falconry School in Gloucestershire, UK, is a small establishment dedicated to showing best practices in how to care for, handle and fly birds of prey, for the purposes of falconry. The school has an enviable reputation, and students have come from all over the world to learn about the training and management of birds of prey.
Much of our tuition is on a one-to-one basis, enabling students to get the maximum value from their course or coaching.
The Falconry School is not a centre which is open to casual visitors. Often such falconry/bird of prey centres provide courses or a Falconry Experience day as an add-on to their usual activities, but these are our PRIMARY activities.
Falconry may be defined as the use of trained raptors for hunting, but it is quite possible to keep and fly birds of prey without hunting with them. The important word is “fly”, and everything that falconry is about is the flight, and all our careful management, handling and training leads to this ultimate purpose.
Therefore, at The Falconry School, participants, students and spectators will NOT see dozens of these superb creatures locked in cages, as may be found in a zoo or bird of prey centre. Instead, you will see a relatively small number of falcons, hawks and owls, kept in readiness for free flight every day, in the peak of condition. As such, this is more similar to the way a private falconer would hope to maintain their own hunting raptors.
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Tripadvisor Reviews
- Travelling-man
Patrick was great and it was nice to learn so many things I had not known before.
It was a great experience to fly the variety of birds and understand... read more
18/03/2020BTB0001 Wow what a day and what a fantastic place. The day was so informative, the birds were amazing.
It was fantastic handling them and watching them fly. There was such... read more
21/03/2019Dan E Brilliant afternoon really good range of birds to see. Staff were very nice and knowledgeable would highly recommend to others
24/02/2019
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