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Java Falconer
11-12-2006, 02:22 PM
This is the smallest falcon I have ever handled.

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d174/ChinSil/MiniFalcon.jpg
MattSpar
11-12-2006, 02:25 PM
Very nice.

I had a strangely coloured budgie once.
Sprout
11-12-2006, 02:25 PM
Is that a budgie cage??
Java Falconer
11-12-2006, 02:35 PM
Is that a budgie cage??

Nope, it is a small singing bird cage.
Misty
11-12-2006, 02:53 PM
what does he weigh?
Java Falconer
11-12-2006, 04:28 PM
what does he weigh?

The last time I put it on a scale, it said about 40 gr.
Black Hawk
11-12-2006, 04:33 PM
wow! :shock: do you have to have a special glove jst 4 your finger or summink? :D
Java Falconer
11-12-2006, 04:40 PM
wow! :shock: do you have to have a special glove jst 4 your finger or summink? :D

Nope, I just handle it using my bare fist, eventhough it hurt a lot when it bites me. Its talons also hurting me as well. I guess, I started to miss that little falcon so much now!
Alf
11-12-2006, 05:03 PM
That little falcon has the biggest feet in relation to its body size I have ever seen.
Do these little falcons take small birds?
Talon
11-12-2006, 07:36 PM
looks like its got a pair of parrots feet.
there huge compared to the size of the body
Alf
11-12-2006, 07:41 PM
Well I looks like its in a parrots cage so it half way there!:yawinkle:
Lovely little thing though I would love to have a crack at one. Thing is with me all my hawks seem to be getting smaller. :rolleyes: Alf.


looks like its got a pair of parrots feet.
there huge compared to the size of the body
Merger
11-12-2006, 07:42 PM
Is it not, A black thighed falconet,, and I think mainly dragon flys and large insects, moths etc, still a flight tho, ued have to try it!
Alf
11-12-2006, 08:28 PM
That’s it mate certainly looks like the hawk in photo! Been looking them up and apparently they do take small birds.
Thought as much with feet like that.


Is it not, A black thighed falconet,, and I think mainly dragon flys and large insects, moths etc, still a flight tho, ued have to try it!
Java Falconer
12-12-2006, 02:45 AM
I guess you are all correct, its feet are massive, compared to its body size.
It is said that it preys upon large insects only, but it kills a Sparrow just in a second and finish it in no more than 5 mins. It is a trully killer mini raptor I guess. It still have the 'toothed-beak' to kill its prey, just like its bigger falcon counterparts.
Matt
20-12-2006, 10:47 AM
about 5 years ago garry wall wa telling us about these littel falcon's he had seen in tyland .
he said that you could buy them in the street markets , and the keepers where feeding live finches and the size of a wren to them .

they where cept as pets not falconry birds he said .


iv asked him tons of times if it was posible to bring some over and he said for get it get and american kesrel.
Java Falconer
20-12-2006, 01:47 PM
about 5 years ago garry wall wa telling us about these littel falcon's he had seen in tyland .
he said that you could buy them in the street markets , and the keepers where feeding live finches and the size of a wren to them .

they where cept as pets not falconry birds he said .


iv asked him tons of times if it was posible to bring some over and he said for get it get and american kesrel.

Yep, they are not easy to be trained. Weight management is the hardest, my friend has tried so, but the bird died because of that difficulty in maintaining the flying weight. Weight management is so critical when it comes to small raptors.

Kestrel is the smallest to be flown as I know.

Btw, is it true that your budgies could fly free like raptors? I'm totally curious...