Training birds of prey in the 80's - How hunting with predatory birds looked like

wocomoWILDLIFE
wocomoWILDLIFE
70,502
0
Published 2018-07-18
Jemima Parry-Jones was a trailblazer in the movement to protect birds of prey in Britain. Her Falconry Centre in Gloucestershire was in the forefront of captive breeding programmes for these threatened species.

Subscribe to the channel: goo.gl/L5puvQ
Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/wocomo/
Click here for more documentaries: bit.ly/AnimalDocumentaries

Jemima Parry-Jones doesn't easily fit into anyone's preconceptions about falconry or falconers. Born and brought up amongst birds of prey, she has a down-to-earth directness that has made her a popular figure in falconry circles and in conservation circles around the world.
The film does not attempt to be a guide to the world of falconry or describe the skills in any detail, although inevitably much of its history and its current practice emerge in the course of the film. It is rather a look at falconry today and some of the people who practice it with a special emphasis on Jemima and her work.
Jemima runs with her husband Jo and a team of dedicated workers, the Birds of Prey Conservation and Falconry Centre at Newent in Gloucestershire. The Centre is a focus for falconers around the world because it is here that they run training courses, breed falcons, hawks and eagles as falconry birds and provide an expert fund of knowledge and experience. In the film we see Jemima in the company of other falconers, at the Centre in the training course, at the Game Fair in Scotland, hunting alone in the winter morning near her home with her Harris Hawk and Bramble her black Labrador.
Conservation, with a special emphasis on the conservation of birds of prey is another important theme in the film. Jemima feels it is essential to educate the public and to this end we see her talking to people at the Centre and visiting a school with some of her birds and talking to the kids. The paradox that hunters are often the most concerned about conservation is one of the major issues confronted in the film. The role of the falconer today must be more than that of a trainer of birds and a hunter. They must be aware of the environment as a whole.

Original title: The Falconer's Tale

A Film by Ron Orders

© 1984, Cinecontact
All Comments (21)
  • @davedaw8002
    Time to get this to go VIRAL... Well done Jemima for all you do. Really love going to the International Centre for Birds of Prey at Newent.
  • @jasonbarnett8911
    I recorded this on vhs tape back in 86 when it was shown on Channel 4 but the recorder only caught 3/4 of it for some reason,finally all these years later I can watch all of it. The music at the end when Jemima is flying Heidi just has me in bits.
  • @leebrown2063
    What a brilliant women she'd teach kids alot more life skills than any school teaching.
  • @kevinriach6739
    Great days spent here. seed was sown 1978!...11 mile bike ride on me Chopper. 11 miles home..glory days...
  • @mamaboocee
    Show this and her other videos (try Understanding Falconry, 1990) to your grandchildren! Awesome roll model!
  • @nippy3952
    was lucky to meet Jemima a few times, she was the complete falconer like her father. It's a shame most falconers today haven't got a clue and do more damage to falconry than good.
  • @ideaswanted
    You Are amazing and inspiring that my sister wants to do this now
  • @JohnDoe-yf1wm
    So gutted this has now closed I am in my 50s now but I went there as often as possible in the 80s and use the lure or dummy bunny with two falcons called tege and teal such a shame so many people fell for the PLaNdEmIc which shut this beautiful place down
  • @cassbeije6992
    I'm in love....I remember flying my birds. Lifetime ago.
  • @stormysampson1257
    A true understanding of animals and birds is what you have learned, sweetie. A TRUE understanding where you are able to WORK with your birds, and you will always always be a lure for all kinds of animals. Unbelievable how animals...just know. I don't even want to get going reciting all of the animals that have entered my life. Truly a weird calling? and a very rich rich life. I am always aghast that so many other humans are so dang removed from other life forms. Major huggs...what the heck is your NAME again? Grins! You have a very solid follower in little old me. Can I send you some big fat Pandora caterpillars? Major yummy for birds. I sure hope my ravens start gobbling them up off the pine trees!! Jemima??
  • @burniemaurins2382
    A shame the centre shut to the public, I bought a Saker from Gemima back in the 1980's, some of the best 8 years of my life flying her.
  • @snireaper4240
    i have the same bird except its still in immature plumage