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PA / Pittsburgh - Cathedral of Learning - 2009-22
The Peregrine Chick:
Got this report through a group of banders I chat with ...
The mystery new male PEFA at the nest in Pittsburgh (on the Cathedral of Learning on the Pitt campus) was banded as a nestling in Cincinnati in 2013. He appeared on the scene on March 23, and his bands were read on the nest cam two days later. It will be very interesting to see what happens from here. The female is still sitting on three eggs from her previous mate, who was killed on March 16.
His coloured band is black/red, N over 29. Not in the Midwest database so they had to chat with the banding lab and put the call out to peregrine banders.
Alison:
A little bit about E2 and hope on the news:
http://www.wtae.com/news/cathedral-of-learnings-peregrine-falcon-eggs-in-potential-danger-after-bird-found-dead/38606898
Alison:
Dorothy's long-time mate E2 and Hope settled in, and on March 13 Hope laid her first egg. She laid the second egg on March 15, and a third egg on March 17.
But on March 16, there was terrible news. E2 was found dead. From Kate St. John's blog:
Yesterday afternoon, March 16, a woman in the Friendship neighborhood of Pittsburgh found a dead peregrine falcon face down in her backyard. Because he was banded we learned he was E2.
E2 hatched at the Gulf Tower in 2005, the son of Louie and Tasha. He arrived at Pitt in November 2007 after his predecessor Erie had disappeared. He was 11 years old.
Last seen on the Cathedral of Learning falconcam at 12:37pm on Tuesday, March 15, E2 died less than a mile and a half from home. He had a broken right wing and leg and blood in his mouth. We don’t know what happened but it appears he was hit broadside. (*)
When E2 last visited the nest there was only one egg. Hope laid her second egg 4.5 hours later. Though she sometimes sits on the eggs, she may have not begun true incubation.
At this point in the nesting cycle — egg laying — E2 brought food to her every day, mated with her, and cached food on the cliff. His custom was to visit each egg after it was laid. He did not visit the second egg.
By now Hope has figured out that he won’t be coming home.
Hope will begin to hunt for herself again. For a while, she’ll protect the eggs but not incubate them. Eventually she’ll advertise for a mate by circling above the Cathedral of Learning. If a new mate arrives in the next few weeks, the pair will bond and she will lay a new clutch two weeks later.
http://www.birdsoutsidemywindow.org/2016/03/17/e2-found-dead-in-friendship/
Hope has been doing a fair amount of incubating. At the moment, she is on the eggs for the night and is asleep.
There has been no indication that there is a new male around. With massive injuries to his right side, and internal injuries, I believe it is most likely that E2 was hit by a vehicle. Poor little guy; it is so sad to lose him in this way, and even more so with Hope in the middle of egg laying.
E2 was always a wonderful mate for Dorothy, loyal, faithful and completely supportive. He was a great tiercel.
Alison:
2016 NESTING SEASON
On November 30 of last year, the great matriarch Dorothy was displaced by another falcon. The new female is Hope, from the Tarentum Bridge nest. She is banded black/green 69/Z, and was born at the Benjamin Harrison Bridge in Hopewell, Virginia in 2008. Since she is from Virginia, she has a green federal band on her right leg.
I don't know whether or not Dorothy survived, and as far as I know no searches were done to see if she might be injured somewhere in the vicinity.
An article on Dorothy at the time she went missing:
http://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2015/12/04/Peregrine-falcon-Dorothy-missing-from-eyrie-at-Cathedral-of-Learning/stories/201512040312
Kinderchick:
I'm so sorry to hear of the passing of this beautiful little peregrine falcon, Silver. :'(
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