THE KESTREL PRIMER. By Robert W. Eiser.

# 2019 1st edition. Large quarto paperback (217 x 280mm). Pp31. Colour and b/w photographs. Signed by the author.

# "The North American Kestrel's place in falconry has often been underestimated with their potential as hunting hawks overlooked. ...As past Director of two Raptor Rehabliitation Centers, I could always count on at least one batch of Kestrels each year, more often two or three. My falconry staff would raise, train, fly, enter, and hack these out en masse - I recollect over one four-year period we successfully released 47 of the little buggers, seemed like they were everywhere! The byproduct in handling so many birds over the years was the opportunity to gain a better than average understanding of Kestrel management and husbandry which brings us to the primary focus of The Kestrel Primer." Chapters include: Preface; Training; furnishings; Diet, weighing, zoonosis; Daily routine; The art of flying; Notes to the novice; conclusion.