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The Peregrine Chick:
Here's a disturbing email from one of the birding loops I belong to ... our peregrines have enough dangers to face, glad their migration route is limited to the Americas!!
NOTE, PHOTOS ARE DISTURBING
One of our satellite-tracked Amur Falcons, an adult female, was fitted with a 5g tag in early January 2010 in South Africa. This spring it was tracked for the third time over the Indian Ocean to its breeding grounds some 470 kms west of Peking in China. It left the area during the first half of October to arrive on 4 November at Doyang reservoir in eastern India, now world famous for the slaughter of theses small falcons - see
http://www.conservationindia.org/campaigns/amur-massacre
http://www.birdwatch.co.uk/channel/newsitem.asp?c=11&cate=__13205
http://www.birdlife.org/community/2012/11/help-required-to-end-hunting-massacre-in-nagaland-india/
120,000-140,000 birds are estimated to be killed every year at this largest congregation anywhere in the world.
*Please sign a petition:*
https://www.change.org/en-IN/petitions/please-stop-amur-falcon-massacre-in-nagaland-india
Our bird had already visited the area last autumn. We had again anxious days. Would the female survive? Finally on 14 November she left the area to start crossing the Indian Ocean on 17 November some 400 kms south of Mumbai (Bombay). This is further south than in the previous years.
We just received the last fix for 20 November 6.47 h (GMT), when she was only 240 kms from the coast of Somalia in East Africa. Two years ago she arrived in Somalia on 21 November and on 22 November in 2011. The crossing of the ocean occurs considerably further south this year.
After almost three years, this falcon must be the world champion as for long-term satellite tracking of a small bird with a 5 g PTT.
The Peregrine Chick:
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Same kind of band as Jules ;)
And glad to here this bird appears to be doing as well as Jules
RCF:
!!! Some additional photos of the wayward Gyrfalcon escapee hanging out in Scarborough’s east end.
........given that the Gyrfalcon was produced in captivity and is privately owned as evident by the much smaller breeders type leg bands on its legs.
http://www.peregrine-foundation.ca/w/2012/11/sightings/some-additional-photos-of-the-wayward-gyrfalcon-escapee-hanging-out-in-scarboroughs-east-end/
Kinderchick:
--- Quote from: RCF on November 12, 2012, 14:44 ---Rare white falcon spotted at Scarborough shopping mall
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1286192--rare-white-falcon-spotted-at-scarborough-shopping-mall
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Another very interesting story! Sounds as if the bird is an "escapee". Would he/she be owned by a falconer? I wonder how they plan to capture her? ???
Kinderchick:
--- Quote from: RCF on November 12, 2012, 14:38 ---Exhausted kestrel hitches ride back to shore on sailor's shoulder after flying 25 miles out to sea
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2230410/Exhausted-kestrel-hitches-ride-shore-sailors-shoulder-flying-25-miles-sea.html#ixzz2C2hhXcAh
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What a great story! Thanks for posting, RCF. :-*
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