red tailed hawk or american kestrel?

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This is in response to a blog comment/question asking what is easier to train.

A red tail is easier to train as an apprentice. Red tails are very easy going and become trained very quickly when trained properly by a good falconer. Redtails are very mild mannered and good tempered birds. They are opportunists and just hang around on poles or trees until they see something to eat and then just swoop down on it. Of course they love to soar as well. They are big birds and are much more difficult to kill by not feeding enough. Kestrels are so small that they need to be weighed twice a day and the balance of feeding just enough food to them to keep them coming back to you is so critical that too little food will kill them quickly because their metabolism is so different from a big bird like a redtail in the sense that they burn up food really fast.

They really are cute little birds and all the ladies are fond of them because of this. my wife loved our kestrel. even after we released it the bird would still wake us up every morning outside our window for about two weeks wanting food before it moved on.

A kestrel though is the best bird to fly after you have had experience with flying a redtail successfully if you want to fly falcons because kestrels are easy to obtain as they are everywhere during the season.
hope this helps.
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