Note 595 — Chapter XXXVII · TRAINING THE PASSAGE SAKER TO COMMON HERON[580]

Sar zadan, “to stoop”; in some districts lagad zadan, lit. “to kick.” It is very seldom that an experienced hawk will bind to a wild heron at the first stoop. Herons in the air try to use their beaks, and hawks prefer to knock about a heron first, by striking it on the point of the shoulder, and then to seize an opportunity for closing. Once, after binding to a heron in the air, as both birds were falling, the heron seized a hawk of the translator’s by the wing and made it scream.