Who has actually trained and flown a raptor? I first started as a youngster, getting my first Red Tailed Hawk was amazing, peeking through the box hole looking at it. I trained that bird to be very aggressive, it even attacked me and my collie dog, it was so super sensitive it killed a few woodcocks that lay on the ground that are invisible to see. I then went on to work for a falconry business training falcons, they are so intelligent that you only need to give a few markers for them to know what they are supposed to do.