few of my mates i work with have birds of prey they hunt with there's most use harris hawks there big enough to take a rabbit or pheasant and say keeping them is quiet easy the most important thing is their wieght to heavy cant fly or won't just sit in a tree and to thin not enough energy to make a kill fine line between starvation and peak fitness they fly them all year but scare the bejeasus out of me saw one of them grab my mate on his hand with no glove and it took him nearly an hour to get it off wouldn't let go if it could feel any movement in his hand and just locked its talons into his hand nasty fu----r think he must of fed it a weeks food trying to get off i'd of killed the thing but he's still got the same bird and a scar to boot any how good luck and get a good pair of gloves mate
