Bird of Prey Wrangling / Falconry is an exciting and growing part of our company's focus!

Our falcons, hawks, eagles, and owls have been featured in a number of retail commercials, music videos, and network trailers. Our trained birds provide movie and commercial producers with controlled movement, while our professional falconers and bird of prey handlers ensure safe human and animal interaction. There's also habitat specific footage to enhance any project.

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BIRDS OF PREY (Hawks, Eagles, Owls, Falcons)
for movies, commercials, motion pictures, still photographs, music videos, etc...

Hawkeye has birds of prey in these families:

Hawks:
For the purpose of movies they are the best of the bunch. They hunt and move with no regard to explosions, fire, other animals, or other severe distractions. They also have an added advantage some of our hawks have twins that look identical on film and some that may fly together, as the script requires.

Hawks usually go from A-B locations from either the handler to an actor but
can also go from A spot to B spot if B spot is an inanimate object such as a
branch or roof top and something like motorcycle handle bars for example.

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Eagles:
We have two species for you to chose from: Bald eagle or Golden eagle. Eagles
look the best on film when flying over water with the wing tips hitting the water.

Bald eagles or Golden eagles are the hardest birds of prey to work with. They generally take a long time to train, sometimes months for a desired effect. We highly recommend that, if you require either species, we have full understanding of what is required and how long we have to train the Bald eagle or Golden eagle with the actor and the location or situation as per script.

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Owls:
Rarely like to fly around alot, a few flights is all we will get out of owls - not good for take after take. The are very cool just sitting there and have an air of patience, knowledge, and wisdom about them.

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Falcons: peregrine, saker, gyr, kestrel:
The Jet fighter of the bird of prey world - fast and furious. They will stay in the
line of sight of the camera for a few seconds and usually fly between
200-1200ft in height around the wrangler. Actors require quite a bit of
training to work with them; falcons are very skiddish around new surroundings
and require about 10 minutes to acclimate to each situation.

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Hawkeye on the Movie set of "Skin Walkers"

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