Other Peregrine Projects > USA Peregrines
NY / Buffalo - U of Buffalo - 2010-16
Alison:
Updating a bit:
On May 26, DEC biologists removed three healthy chicks (two females, one male) from the nest box. The chicks were placed with a licensed wildlife rehabilitator, Hawk Creek Wildlife Center in East Aurora, where they were fostered to a tiercel named Blaze, who is a permanent resident at Hawk Creek.
A fourth egg was removed from the nest, but there was no sign of the fifth egg. There is no way to tell whether the egg did not hatch, or whether a fourth chick hatched and did not survive.
The chicks' parents, Yankee and Dixie, have continued to be seen at their nest.
This is Blaze at Hawk Creek with the three young peregrines. Photo by Tanya Lowe.
The Peregrine Chick:
There was another bird that was going to be removed for the same reason a number of years ago - I think in Minnesota somewhere - it was attacking people on the ground at quite a distance from the nestsite. I think in the end the pair moved or she didn't return or something and they never did follow through. I just don't quite remember which means now I'm going to have to hunt up the bird. ::)
It was suggested that we might try to remove Jules because of where she was nesting and because she was so aggressive - the latter compounding the problem caused by the former. I opted to try to get her to move and when we couldn't get that didn't get much pick-up, we moved her chicks when we could without injuring them knowing she would follow. It was a risky move worth trying but it was still a compromise. In the end, we did manage to get a barrier installed so she couldn't nest in her preferred location and that was the year Beatrix took over.
It would be interesting to know exactly how aggressive BB is/was. If she was a risk to people working or living nearby, she could very well have been injured by someone trying to protect themselves - remember there was a workman (in Alberta?) who was using a broom to keep the peregrines away from him. Something like that could have gone very wrong and the peregrine would have been the inevitable loser. And yes, DEC has a duty to protect wildlife, but wildlife will almost always come second to human safety, even if it is just normal, natural behaviour. This is speculation on my part, but faced with orders to "do something", taking her out of circulation may have been the best compromise they could come up with. Re-releasing her makes me suspect that they weren't thrilled with the idea of removing her either and hoped that in a new location with a new mate she would be a bit mellower - I can't imagine that the captive facility wouldn't have been able to release her without DEC's approval. Too bad it seems not to have worked, but captivity may be better than a more permanent removal ...
And yes, it was a possibility that she could have been less aggressive in her new situation. Just as every bird is an individual, so too is every pair. Joli is aggressive but much less so with Hart than she was with Cowboy. Cowboy was an assassin but fortunately, he was in place where he didn't cause too too many problems (he wasn't problem-free however) and he wasn't interested in random passersby so everyone could live with him. T-Rex was like Cowboy and that never changed, fortunately, he had the pick of the territories so he only beat on the Project when we had to get close to his nests. Princess is a great protector, but she learned how to pick her battles from Trey and she has taught Ivy and Smiley.
just my two cents ... :)
Kinderchick:
--- Quote from: Alison on April 18, 2015, 22:55 ---This is not the first time that the Buffalo peregrines have been interfered with.
Some time back, the former resident female, BB, was removed from the nest (again without any advance notice) and put into captivity. This was allegedly done because she was "aggressive". She had been there for years, and suddenly she was gone...
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Removed because she was "aggressive"?! :o
Holy smokes!
Isn't that the nature of PF's?
What on earth IS wrong with Buffalo?! >:(
allikat:
I read through all of this and I am as equally disturbed about the treatment of these Falcons.
Can someone of authority not contact Buffalo and stand up for the right of the peregrine falcon?
Alison:
--- Quote from: Kinderchick on April 18, 2015, 22:50 ---That is very disappointing. Do you know who the resident pair are, Alison? ???
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It is way beyond disappointing. The resident pair are Yankee and his mate Dixie. Yankee is Canadian, from the Niagara Gorge nest. He is banded black/black 42/Y on the right leg, with a silver band on the left. Dixie is unbanded. She replaced the former resident female BB after BB was forcibly removed from the nest by the DEC.
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