the falconry school
The Falconry School is dedicated to showing best practises in how to care for,
handle and fly birds of prey, for the purposes of falconry. Check us out!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.
