We minimize our contact with them and release them as soon as they are rehabilitated. It is a general rule that larger raptors are females and the smaller ones are males. Besides that, we can only guess their gender unless we examine the inside organs. To protect our hands from their talons. We are holding their jesses, pieces of leather that are tied around their legs.
Raptors are wild animals and stay wild animals even if they become permanent residents.
No and no. These are wild animals and NOT pets. We do not pet them. We believe so. Happiness is hard to evaluate, but they are well fed and have few worries.