It's a leather strap around the bird's ankle, used to handle the bird. In falconry, they simply hold the jess; In our case, the jess has a grommet, and the glove has a leash sewn to it, and the leashes are clipped to the jesses. Entiendes?
At my raptor show interview Thursday I told them that most of the birds at VLM were single jessed and they looked at me like I just grew an antler out of the middle of my forehead. So I thought I'd ask and see if the VLM are just freaks.
It's not like there are any industry standards--everyone just does it the way they think works. There's very poor communication between places, too. We just found out there were some major differences between us and the other sanctuary with animals, with regards to handling (we're going to have a meeting about it). For our part, we did have a bird get away from a teacher in a school gym, because it only had one jess, and it came undone.
No, they had to call us (well, not me, it was my day off) and my coworker had to drive out there and enlist the help of the local animal control (long handled nets + ladders) to get the bird back. Good times.
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