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The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: The Peregrine Chick on July 08, 2011, 16:54 ---Sabaa is one of four Saker Falcons being used at the site, and yes, they are flying a peregrine as well as a few hawk species.
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The Saker Falcon (Falco cherrug) is a very large falcon. This species breeds from eastern Europe eastwards across Asia to Manchuria. It is mainly migratory except in the southernmost parts of its range, wintering in Ethiopia, the Arabian peninsula, northern Pakistan and western China. During the end of the last ice age–oxygen isotope stages 3-2, some 40,000 to 10,000 years ago–it also occurred in Poland (Tomek & Bocheński 2005).
Saker - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saker_Falcon
RCF:
--- Quote from: Kinderchick on July 08, 2011, 18:35 ---Is that a gyrfalcon in the photo, TPC? :-\
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It's a Saker Falcon, I think they are European.
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/saker_falcon.htm
Kinderchick:
Is that a gyrfalcon in the photo, TPC? :-\
Saoirse:
Wow, I don't live far from there -- definitely time to take a drive over and see what I can see!
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: Kinderchick on July 08, 2011, 17:20 ---I heard about this on the news yesterday.
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The contract was signed a few months ago and the birds have been flying since April or May and its working nicely so far from what I hear :)
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