A Guide to Transporting Hawks With Transit Boxes

Transporting your birds of prey can be a daunting and stressful task. During transport, it’s important that you stick to a variety of principles, for safety as well as convenience. A great way to meet these principles is to have a custom transit box fitted to your car, which can come with additional features to help you with the process.

How Should Hawks be Transported?

Because hawks are naturally a rare species, they’re also expensive. They’re not your average pet so any damage done to your bird of prey will likely come with high prices. This makes it important to ensure that you adhere to a set of principles when you transport your hawks, as well as for their own safety.

Space: When transporting your hawk, it should be kept in a small enough area so that it can’t jump around and spread its wings. That being said, it shouldn’t be so small as to entrap the bird in an uncomfortable manner. A little under two hawk widths would be ideal.

Hoods: Putting a hood on your bird of prey will ensure that it remains calm and unstressed whilst you’re transporting it. As they’re highly alert species that can react extremely quickly, keeping hawks placated is as safe for the hawk as it is for other humans and animals.

Mesh: Don’t use a metal mesh as an encasing as your hawks’ feathers can get stuck.

Substances: It’s also important that you don’t use sawdust, straw, or water in the transport box as this will only make the box, and your hawk, dirty as you drive.

How Can a Transit Box Help?

A great way to transport hawks in the safest manner possible is to buy a transit box. Whilst there are options out there that are made to standard measurements, it’s best to have your transport box custom fitted to your car as this will provide the best transport stability for your bird of prey.

Plus, having your transit box custom made gives you the option to add features that you wouldn’t otherwise get, such as:

●     Built-in drawers to carry the various equipment needed for hunting

●     Multi-transport box options if you have more than one hawk

●     Enclosed entrances in case your hawk is particularly excitable or if you have a dog in the car

●     Ledges rather than boxes if your hawk is particularly well trained.

To keep your hawk safe during transportation, it’s best to invest in a transit box. These boxes will accomplish all of the above criteria and having one custom made will have the added benefit of allowing you to include extra features depending on your requirements.

At Animal Transit Boxes, we have a proven track record of creating innovative designs and paying close attention to detail because the safety of your birds of prey is in our hands. If you have any further questions about hawk transit boxes or any of our other products like dog transit boxes or whelping cages, then don’t hesitate to get in touch by calling 01952 370 037 today!