Newt Scamander wrote:an edit to my last post: you're allowed to keep birds of prey here in the Netherlands without being a falconer, as long as they are captive bred and have the right papers.
anyway, i earned my falconers glove the other day. now i have my own. gotta let it engrave or something, make it special for me.
Congratulation!!!!
No, here (tough it's in the European union as well) the only way to have a bird of prey if you're not a offcicial falconer is by passing a hunting licence. And as I already said even if I don'tmind at all hunting with bird of preys, I don't really like shooting animals with guns and you have to do that in order to obtain the licence
I went to a parc this evening with my father, where there is a small farm/zoo... They have a couple of eagle owl in this small zoo, and these eagle owls have newborn babies!
I knew the owls had eggs, because last time I've been there one of the bird was brooding. The first time we've walked closed to their enclosure/aviary tonight, we thought the eggs were not oppened yet, because one of the bird was still on the nest and no baby could be seen ( heard a little high-pitched call though , so I said than some of the eggs may have hatched, but their was no way to prove it). The second time we walked to the enclosure, some of the bird had a prey (a chick I think) in its beak. The bird look at us, before calling the second bird and flying to the nest. The second bird stand up, letting us see the white/grey owlets for a long time. Acccording to their size and color, all of them are less than one week old, some of them may be less than a day old! This made my day