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youtu.be/hjpTuxWaD7A Saudi Arabia is mad about falcon racing – so much so they’ve built a huge stadium to host it in the middle of the
by Charlie Jacoby Police have arrested a man in connection with five birds of prey found shot in Suffolk. Police launched an investigation in January
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCqL_-PhJek Roy Lupton is producing some of the finest racing machines known to man. His falcon breeding programme is for the Middle Eastern falcon racing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf0TiK2QBjM As Scotland bans eagles from catching hares, is there hope for the ancient sport of falconry? Eagle falconer Roy Lupton says he hopes so.
David Whitby manages a shooting estate in Sussex, looking after pheasants, partridges, deer – and he brings his work home with him. Living with him
Falconers are not impressed. Joshua Hammer wrote The Falcon Thief about Jeffrey Lendrum, who smuggled falcon eggs to middle-eastern clients. Lendrum was jailed in
How do you train your falcon? Until recently, it was by experience. Now you can get it to have a go at drones. Roy Lupton
Roy Lupton straps a camera on the back of an eagle and sends it off to hunt hares. With mountain hare numbers booming on this
He wants the best bred goshawks in the world. So here’s how falconer Roy Lupton sets about impregnating his female goshawks. This film first appeared
Our falconry expert Roy Lupton takes his hawks and his John Deere Gator out to catch rabbits at night. Watch incredible footage of eagles catching
Roy’s falcon chicks are hatched and growing – and behaving just like velociraptors. He tours the raptor maternity ward and shows how to bring on
Roy keeps lots of rubber hats. Why? Because he uses them to collect sperm from his tiercels. Well, you wanted to know. He talks us
Roy Lupton breeds high-speed falcons in the UK for houbara bustard hunting in the Middle East and the ‘Stans. He travels to Azerbaijan to see
Ride on the back of an eagle as it catches mountain hares in Scotland. We mount a tiny camera on the back of Roy Lupton’s
We are with Roy Lupton as he gets his hands on the Rocrow falconry flight trainer. He uses it to train his birds of prey
Roy is up the Scottish hills with two golden eagles to help bring down mountain hare numbers – and to try out the #eaglecam he
Roy is up the Scottish hills with two golden eagles to help bring down mountain hare numbers – and to try out the #eaglecam he
Roy Lupton is in Scotland flying his goshawk on rabbits over pointers. It is fast-action sport – and a beautiful combination of man, dog and
If you think a golden eagle is big, wait until you see an African crowned eagle. Roy Lupton’s friend Sang from South Korea has one
Roy Lupton is hedging his bets. He has brought his goshawk and his rifle to go lamping rabbits and foxes this evening. And he has
We have been making some great films about eagles trying to catch hares. To watch the whole of this film and more on YouTube, go
Roy Lupton takes his eagles to the Angus Glens in Scotland to catch mountain hares. It is exciting sport in a stunning location. Watch amazing
You have to get the calls right and you have to wear the right hat. Peregrine breeder Roy Lupton puts on his ‘love helmet’ in
Roy Lupton has a lot of hunting on his mind: He is out to shoot a fox, and he also plans to hawk rabbits with
Roy Lupton uses his thermal imager to see the difference between a cold-weather eagle and two warm-weather eagles. There’s hardly any heat loss from the
We’re hunting hares on farmland in Lincolnshire with Eagle falconer Roy Lupton and his friends. The first days provides some stunning footage of a hare
Want to see gorgeous films of eagles in flight? We are out with a martial eagle, a golden eagle and, at the other end of
Hunting with a golden eagle in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. Max Hunt and Rags go out with a Kyrgyz falconer who keeps a golden eagle
A fox breaks in and kills falconer Roy Lupton’s oldest and favourite goshawk, he only has one thought on his mind – get that fox.
Top falconer Roy Lupton flies his goshawk on rabbits in the south of England. Incredible fast-action footage. This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain
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Roy Lupton’s goshawk A young female goshawk, a few 100 years ago she was the equivalent of Ocado, the perfect predator to put food on
The goshawk is called ‘the cook’s bird’ because it’s the one you need if you want to fill your freezer. Top austringer (hawker) Roy Lupton
Peregrine falcon training can be a breeze when you start playing with kites. In this film Roy Lupton is taking his young falcon “the Dude”
We pile on to Roy Lupton’s Argocat and head off with a rifle and Harris hawk. Both prove deadly this evening with foxes responding to
Roy Lupton is on the Kingsclere Estate in Hampshire with his golden eagle ‘Baby’ on the look out for brown hares. We work hard for
Falconry expert Roy Lupton takes us round his aviaries and shows off his daily routine with goshawk chicks, including diet, care and the latest technological
Falconry expert Roy Lupton shows some of his falconry buddies how to train their eagles to take a fox lure. So it’s out with a
Falconers and austringers like to make the thin leather straps used to tether their birds and Roy Lupton is no exception. Here he shows how
Falconer Roy Lupton’s goshawks are growing up. he needs to get them used to being driven around in a car, so that’s this week’s lesson.
Badger bumped by a car? Knock it on the head. Oiled seabird? Give it a lethal injection. That may become official policy from the UK
Here’s how the RSCPA killed a healthy eagle. It’s a shocking story of falconer Roy Lupton’s attempt to save an injured wild golden eagle. Despite
Roy Lupton takes his birds into the field to find other birds. He is using goshawks. Originally a yeoman or poor gentleman’s hawk, the goshawk
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