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Gyr x Saker Falcon


Gyr x Saker Falcon
Photo Information
Copyright: Linzi Halliwell (Goodwitch) (37)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-08-01
Categories: Birds
Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ18
Exposure: f/8, 1/500 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2009-07-25 2:05
Viewed: 433
Points: 5
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
This is a Gyr Saker Falcon. This beautiful bird is the result of successful cross-breeding between two species Falco rusticolus and Falco cherrug.

"Viewed from a falconer's aspect, each of the falcons has its good qualities & its bad qualities. In order to get the best performance out of the falcons used in falconry, cross-breeding techniques are used to produce hybrids, which hopefully have the better qualities of each species, while avoiding the less good qualities.

The first hybrid falcons were produced in the early 1970s in Ireland when Ronald Stevens & John Morris housed a Peregrine & a Saker in the same moulting mews, it was not expected that the two would mate & produce young.

The qualities being looked for in the hybrids of each species are :

Gyrfalcon
Size : the Gyrfalcon is the largest of the falcons native to the Western Palearctic.

Saker
Strength, stamina & size : a strong falcon, with sufficient stamina to tail chase its prey to exhaustion."
Taken from http://www.pauldfrost.co.uk/hybridf.html

Hope you like

cheers
Linzi
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Hi Linzi,

welcome here, and thanx for your comment on the three stooges ;). On this picture, i think such a portrait does a lot better if you lower yurself to eye-level of the animal, it usually creates a calm back-ground, and show the bird how it would see itself, now it is the POV of a human looking down on animals

enjoy your weekend
Jeroen

Linzi,
Great capture your Gyr Saker Falcon!! Sharpness, colors very natural.Good job. Congratulation!
Horia

Hi Linzi. Interesting POV, good light and DOF. No focus on eye but is a little problem. TFS.

Roberto

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