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Some Commonly used Falconry Terms Block - Solid perch, usually cylindrical, for a tethered bird Cast - Restrain a bird for examination, usually with a towel Cast, casting - Regurgitate a pellet Cope - Trim by rasping and/or clipping the beak and talons Creance - Long line attached to jesses used in training Deck feathers - Two central tail feathers Eyass - Young bird Falcon - Female, member of the family Falconidae Fed up - The bird is allowed to fill its crop, usually after hunting Flights - Primary and secondary wing feathers Frounce - Specifically, oral lesions of Trichomoniasis Furniture - Any equipment used in falconry Hard penned - Young bird, fully feathered and feathers fully grown Imp - To glue new feather into shaft of damaged feather Imprint - Usually refers to hand reared birds socially imprinted on humans and usually retaining juvenile behaviour of ‘screaming’ for food
Jess - Leather strap through anklet or looped around tarsus Lanneret - Male Lanner Long wings - Members of the family Falconidae Lure - Artificial quarry on long line Manning - Training a bird to accept close human contact Mantle, Mantling - Stretching of both wings to cover prey whilst feeding Mews - Building to house tethered birds Mutes - Raptor droppings, faecal and urinary components Musket - Male Sparrowhawk Quarry - Species of prey hunted by a raptor Screamer - see ‘Imprint’ Sharp set - At flying weight, keen and hungry Short wings - Members of the family Accipitridae Slicing - Projectile defaecation, seen with short wings Spar - Female Sparrowhawk Telemetry - Radio-tracking equipment for location of lost bird Tiercel - Male falcon Weathering - Sheltered area for tethering birds when out of mews
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