Other Peregrine Projects > USA Peregrines
PA / Pittsburgh - Gulf Tower - 2010-19
carly:
Egg #5 is now hatching...!! Wow.. :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* Here's number 5, she's helping it out!!! Wow!!!
She's munching on the shell, baby by her wing..all pinkish! Incredible, now we know for sure that both Tasha's eggs have hatched! What a tribute to a wonderful falcon and a great tiercel who never gave up even with Dori didn't want to incubate them ..he insisted!!
carly:
More from Kate in response to a question about the eggs:
Yes, a fertilized egg CAN sit dormant for an extended period of time and still hatch if incubated. Peregrines normally make the eggs wait until incubation – they awit until the clutch is nearly complete. In this case it was just a little longer wait than usual. Freezing was the only real hazard & Louie made sure that they didn’t freeze.
Will Dori know that one (or more) of the chicks is not hers?
I doubt she knows and if she did it would make no difference to her. She will raise all of them as her own. Peregrines’ will foster others’ chicks. The Peregrine Recovery Project used this knowledge when they fostered chicks with peregrine adults who were unable to raise their own viable young due to DDT.
carly:
Kate St John has confirmed that it is indeed one of Tasha's eggs that has hatched! Kate looks after the nest sites there and she has records from the cams she has gone through for verification.
http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2010/05/11/four-out-of-five/#comments
Kinderchick:
--- Quote from: carly on May 10, 2010, 18:29 ---Although I can't verify this as of yet, some of the posters on CMNH are saying that the fourth egg just hatched....Dori only laid 3..that would mean that a 50 day old egg has hatched??? One of Tasha's, will see if I can see if there are three or four under her.
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If this is true, that's amazing! :o
carly:
Although I can't verify this as of yet, some of the posters on CMNH are saying that the fourth egg just hatched....Dori only laid 3..that would mean that a 50 day old egg has hatched??? One of Tasha's, will see if I can see if there are three or four under her.
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