Four Falconry Fundamentals

Product Description

Part troubleshooter, part owner’s manual, Four Falconry Fundamentals strips away the sport’s layers of inherent complexity and tradition to reveal its cornerstone concerns: prey base; husbandry; recall; and slip management. Drawing from more than 35 years of successful field experience, Mullenix guides the reader through each fundamental aspect of the sport and how it relates to important considerations, like: choice of a hawk; weight management; entering and finally, measuring success. Concise and highly readable, this small book hopes to start conversations, inspire new ways of thinking and improve falconers’ practice and enjoyment of their sport.

From the Author

This short book (8k words) has been decades in the making, the product of much trial and error and a true labor of love. Falconry has been one of the guiding lights in my life, and a lifetime of improvement in its practice has been a goal of mine since my first hawk, flown in 1984. While falconry is wonderfully complex and often difficult (also endlessly rewarding), it is by no means impossible to master in its basic elements. Most falconers–most people, I believe–are capable of practicing the sport with measurable success and deep enjoyment. Four Falconry Fundamentals is intended to start a long conversation, one that with luck will last throughout your own practice of falconry, to find out what makes falconry work and how to make it work better. 

From the Back Cover

“Mullenix has done the impossible–a detailed analysisof all falconry in a few pages, scrubbed of romanticism and tradition and evenparticular species. Use it to analyze your own falconry and as a map of whereto go next…an invaluable tool and a must buy!”

–SteveBodio, author of A Rage for Falcons and Eagle Dreams: Searching forLegends in Wild Mongolia

 
 
“…tight, insightful, and descriptive. The only problem isthat people will want more of it.”

–BruceHaak, author of The Hunting Falcon and Pirate of The Plains

About the Author

MattMullenix has flown a variety of hawks and falcons since 1984, with specialfocus on Harris’s hawks and American Kestrels. He is author of two previousfalconry books as well as chapters and articles about the sport both forpractitioners and the general public. His book American Kestrels in ModernFalconry (2002, Western Sporting) is considered essential reading for thoseinterested in flying that species and has been translated into at least threelanguages.

Anative of the Southeastern U.S.A., Mullenix travels regularly from his home inBaton Rouge, Louisiana, to hunt and visit with friends along the Gulf Coast, upinto the Texas Panhandle and sometimes beyond.