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PA / Pittsburgh - Cathedral of Learning - 2009-22
bev.:
I thought same TPC
a lot are harsh on her, but every falcons behaves differently , and I do believer chick would not have made it. I like Hope :-*and she has had a rough time.
I was watching the hatch.
I was also wondering if because incubation was on and off so much, that they stuck to egg shell, and she was trying to get of off shell. we knwo they have to be turned often.
she and Terzo have a good relationship so sh e is not crazy. sometimes we are just not prepped for all that nature presents
this year has been one of strange events.
burdi:
--- Quote from: The Peregrine Chick on April 29, 2016, 20:07 ---Makes me wonder if something was wrong with the chick ... saw the video and she was pretty deliberate. Since one chick had already hatched and she is quite maternal with it, it seems odd that she should behave so differently with the second chick. Couldn't get a good look at the chick but Jules who was hyper protective of her kids, had a chick with deformities, she just tucked her healthy chick under her (that was Polo) and sat watching her only other chick six inches away from her as it lay drying out in the sun. I got a look at the chick and it wouldn't have made it and she knew that right from hatch and was able to make that decision right at the point of hatching. She let it die quickly in the warm afternoon sun and then (as I recall) removed it from the nestbox in the middle of the night.
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I believe your thoughts are correct TPC.
Also, thank you for the warning message.
burdi:
--- Quote from: RCF on April 29, 2016, 19:09 ---
--- Quote from: carly on April 29, 2016, 16:52 ---
--- Quote from: RCF on April 29, 2016, 12:55 ---Number two is hatching now! ;D :-*
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Apparently she killed it and fed it to the first one. :'( :'( I didn't personally see it so we'll see what happened when the site admin posts later on today. Let's hope the third one they say is hatching now survives.
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Oh Geez! :(
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How terribly sad to read about the 2nd hatch. :'(
carly:
Update from Kate this morning:
Yesterday morning we were excited that the first peregrine egg hatched at Pitt and looked forward to a second hatching later in the day.
At around 2:15pm the second egg hatched. Hope manipulated it, killed it, and fed it to the first chick.
This is not normal peregrine behavior.
Viewers were shocked and bewildered. Many of you had questions but I was out of cell range for most of the day, unaware that it happened.
I have never seen this behavior before and don’t know why it occurred. Here’s what we do know: Peregrines’ lives are very different from ours. Using our human yardstick to understand them — anthropomorphizing — really leads us astray.
I asked Art McMorris, the PA Game Commission’s Peregrine Coordinator, who viewed the archived footage and said the chick was alive but might not have been normal. In all his years of dealing with peregrines, Art has never seen this before either.
Hope’s behavior was so unusual that there is no information on it. Many of you speculated about it and asked “Is this why she did it?” In almost every case my answer is “I don’t know.”
http://www.birdsoutsidemywindow.org/2016/04/30/bewildering-birth-and-death/?platform=hootsuite
GCG:
I prefer not to watch.
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