![]() Kites eat on the wing (while flying) so when your bird catches a lot of insects and gets full, how do you convince them to come back? Are these impossible to overcome? Most likely not, but they are major reasons why you don’t see kites in falconry. How do you get your bird back? Most falconry raptors will bring prey to the ground and stay there with it until the falconer gets to them to trade off. What are you going to hunt? Are you ok with hunting insects and rodents? Not knocking that at all but a lot of folks aren’t into it. What methods do you use to teach the bird the benefits of working with you? You’d basically have to use trial and error until something sticks. So if you’re trying to train a kite you have some hurdles: 1. On top of that falconry used to be a form of putting food on the table so there’s little to no old literature on training birds that don’t normally take larger game (except maybe merlins). ![]() It’s hard hunting style to fit human cooperation into, and even if you did many folks don’t see the benefit in it. Mississippi Kites tend to hunt insects on the wing. Generally the birds that are used have hunting styles and pursue game that suits cooperation with humans. However, I’ve never seen any kites used in falconry, at least not the bird lol. Unfortunately he was also fairly new to rehab and probably heavily imprinted them. We'll head back home on the 25th, returning to Vermont around dinnertime.I knew a guy who raised a clutch of them for rehab, he would toss meat cubes and insects into the air to improve their hunting skills so they could live in the wild. We’ll have plenty of time to explore Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, which can host a breathtaking array of shorebirds, including Black-bellied Plover, Pectoral Sandpiper, Dunlin and the stunning American Avocet. For the next two days we’ll explore the Delmarva Peninsula, including Cape Henlopen State Park, a stronghold for the world’s northernmost population of Brown-headed Nuthatch. On route, we’ll keep our eyes out for ocean-loving species like Parasitic Jaeger, Royal Tern, Lesser Black-backed Gull and Brown Pelican. In the nearby channels and lagoons, we’ll look for unusual wading birds like Yellow-crowned Night Heron, Tricolored Heron, Little Blue Heron, White Ibis, White-faced Ibis, and possibly a reclusive Clapper Rail.Īfter several days of birding the Cape May area, we’ll hop on the Lewes Ferry for a crossing of Delaware Bay. In the marsh grass and shrubs of Cape May Meadows and Brig, we’ll watch for Saltmarsh Sparrow, Seaside Sparrow, and maybe even a stray Lark Sparrow or Clay-colored Sparrow. We’ll then explore Forsythe NWR (Brig for short!) and The Wetlands Institute looking for shorebirds like Marbled Godwit, Black-necked Stilt, Red Knot, Willet and Western Sandpiper, among many others. In the sunny afternoons, we’ll head to places like the Cape May Point State Park hawkwatching platform and turn our attention skyward in search of uncommon raptors like Mississippi Kite, Peregrine Falcon, Bald Eagle, and Red-shouldered Hawk. We'll arrive in Cape May with time to enjoy an evening stroll on the beach.įor the next several days, mornings and evenings will be spent at hotspots like Higbee Beach and Cape May Point State Park searching for migratory songbirds like Blue Grosbeak, White-eyed Vireo, Northern Parula, American Redstart, Cape May and Tennessee Warbler. We'll depart early in the morning on September 20 for an eight-hour drive down to Cape May, NJ, in a comfortable van, with rest stops along the way for stretching our legs and doing a little birding. Justice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion.
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