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> I have been raising Greek Wuta (Voutes) for about eight years. I traded a
friend in Minn. for some Cumelets. I have always been interested in sporting
birds (flying/performing). The hawks and falcons have gotten so bad that my
rollers seemed to be social support for the local falcon population. I
didn't know the first thing about flying these Wuta.
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Onelostsoul,
if you are in the UK, there are plenty of roller flyers out there. Keep
asking around, or do an internet search.
It is in their genes to roll, and they seem to do it for the fun of it.
A 20 bird kit of good rollers will probably give you a half-turn or
better (10 or more rolling at once) every 60-90 seconds, with smaller turns
(5 or less birds) happening throughout.
This is called frequency. If you have deep birds, you basically want them to
roll 3-4 times a minute. When we have competitions, the birds are scored for
20 minutes. So we train them to fly for 30 minutes before returning to the loft.
Usually, the more you feed, the longer they fly. WHAT you feed, and the
weather conditions, determine how high they fly.
Alas, video clips are hard to come by. Most of us only have 'home' video
cameras, which requires you to stand under the birds while they fly.
Because of their flying patterns, they make you 'spin around' underneath them,
causing your video to look like it was shot by an idiot.%^)
The only expert slow-motion video I ever saw on rollers, was only about 30
seconds, of a show I saw on Discovery, narrated by David Attenburough, (sp?)
called "The History of Pigeons." It was an excellent show, but like I said,
they only did about 30 seconds on rollers.
E-Man
Also there is a genus of wild bird unrelated to pigeons which is known as
roller also.
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