My name is Norbert Lawitschka, I`m living with my family on the western edge of an idyllic low mountain range called Spessart. It´s only a short hop away from Frankfurt Airport. I`ve been breeding falcons for many years now such as full-blooded gyrs and huge hybrids like gyr/peregrine, gyr/shahin, 7/8 gyr/saker. Besides I`m breeding also peregrines in different subspecies like middleeuropean, norwegian and scottish falcons and pealsfalcons. When I was fifteen I found an injured bird of prey, since then I was hooked. Out of the fascination for this bird grew passion for this species, lasting until now. In the consequence I´ve been a very busied falconer for about forty years now.
For almost 25 years I was passionate about hawks, with which I looted innumerable rabbits here in the Rhein-Main-area, until I
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