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RCF:
Scarborough Gyrfalcon
8) There are some great photos of the white morph gyrfalcon at the link below. 8)
http://www.paulreeves.ca/html/nature/birds/gyrfalcon.html
RCF:
--- Quote from: The Peregrine Chick on November 12, 2012, 16:48 ---Nice story RCF - thanks for finding & posting it!
Could just be a bird migrating through, maybe the long way around, but they do go south. In this part of the continent Gyrs migrate to South Dakota. Island Girl the tundra peregrine migrated right by Sault Ste Marie on her way south to Chile ... a bit further west but she was going a whole lot further south as well ...
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The Peregrine Chick:
--- 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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This is something like Island Girl this year over the Gulf of Mexico - she hitched a ride as well on a northbound ship this fall. Love that everyone has a camera these days, so many more chances to get photos of these occurrences!
The Peregrine Chick:
Nice story RCF - thanks for finding & posting it!
Could just be a bird migrating through, maybe the long way around, but they do go south. In this part of the continent Gyrs migrate to South Dakota. Island Girl the tundra peregrine migrated right by Sault Ste Marie on her way south to Chile ... a bit further west but she was going a whole lot further south as well ...
RCF:
Update on Scarborough Gyrfalcon from BCAW.
November 12, 2012 - International, National and Local News
Frank Butson Reports:
I was up to check this bird out a few times in the past several days. It is thriving, hunting pigeons at the mall/plazza. It catches 2-3 each day, so is eating very well. It is in very good health(to see it at least). It has some local competition, with a Coopers Hawk that hunts the same pigeons, a local Redtailed Hawk that hunts the hydro field just north of the plaza and apparently a Peregrine Falcon who it had a tussle with on Sunday afternoon.
Leslie provided this account of the interactions of the Peregrine and the Gyrfalcon.
http://www.peregrinefalcon-bcaw.net/viewtopic.php?p=210869#p210869
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