Falconry Journal

Owner makes false claims using data from the app

The founder of this app Tim Williams spreads false claims all over different falconry groups to bring attention to his app. He has claimed that red tails are the hardest bird to find a proper hunt weight, kestrels have slow metabolisms, and he loves to argue complete nonsense to promote his app. As a man of principle I cannot support an app that is run by such a lunatic.

Really great app! (Two minor suggestions)

A really useful app and impressively accurate predictions! It was predicting my Harris’s Hawks weights almost always accurately with only like a week of data. I’ve also been using it for the education ambassador raptors I work with to try and get a better handle on their weights. There are two things I personally would like to see added when the developer gets a chance: 1. A setting for birds housed indoors. I am tracking one bird housed outside and I like the automatic temperature input based on location, but I think it may be messing with the weight predictions for the other two birds who are housed in heated buildings. I’m considering turning off location again and manually inputting temps for all three, but it would be nice if there was a setting to set a consistent temperature for specific birds. 2. It would be nice if the type of food fed could be taken into account (or an option to track food calories instead of weight). Some food items like rat are significantly higher calorie than others like chick and I think I’m going to have to manually start correcting for this because I think it might be messing with predictions.