A Falconer's Guide to Training the Passage Red-tailed Hawk. A book for apprentice falconers wanting to know the basics of becoming a falconer. Shows a beginner falconer a step-by-step approach how to train a wild caught hawk to hunt; hawks are not pets. This is one of the most popular and widely referenced books on falconry focused on the falconry apprentice. The author is a licensed master falconer with over forty years of falconry experience - the vast majority of it spent in the pleasant company of passage red-tailed hawks.