THE IMPRINT ACCIPITER II: INCLUDING TAME HACKING.

Notes:
This is Michael McDermott's new version of his sought-after and highly regarded The Imprint Accipiter, with the addition of ten years' extra experience and experiment, new material and many colour photographs. Chapters include; Considerations before choosing a species - species comparisons, goshawks, Sharpshinned hawks, Cooper's hawks; preparation before getting an eyass - mind set, facilities and equipment, ethics, bagged quarry, multiple catches; six key elements - no fear, socialise, keep inside, handling techniques, no glove-food association, good scale work; Raising the eyass - twig feeding to self feeding, carcass feeding, early baggies, lure training, advanced baggies, brancher weight control, comparison with wild hawks; the tame-hacked imprint; metabolism and weight control - taking control, prediction and measuring metabolic rate, the problem zone; problems - aggression, yarak and aggression, territoriality, screaming, carrying, possession, low numbers; night hawking - training, advantages, pest control application, problems; the viszla and quail hawking - the viszla and some stories. Five appendices; time-line for raising imprint accipiters; journal notes on raising goshawks, a male and a female; journal notes on raising sharpshins, a male and a female; journal notes on raising Cooper's, a male and a female; nest hunting for the three species in twelve different US states. As with all three of McDermott's books, essential reading.