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newchick:
Thanks Tracey!
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: newchick on July 14, 2012, 14:11 ---Hey Tracey, this morning I spotted a Falcon in the Silver Heights area it was perched in an ornamental plum tree, I also spotted a sparrow. So, curious if the Falcon may have been eyeing up the sparrow for lunch. :D Unsure if it was just a sparrow hawk, or a juvie Peregrine Falcon (I Don't think they could fly this far, they still are quite young.) But, had similar brown markings like our Juvie Peregrines.
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The bird you were looking at sounds like a Merlin falcon. They are urban nesting birds that mostly look like juvenile peregrines, just smaller. And they sound like peregrines just a bit higher in pitch. They don't build nests, rather they take over old crows' nests in the spring. Their chicks look just like peregrine chicks, incubation and development patterns are the same, usually just a bit shorter. They don't hunt entirely like the peregrines because they hunt closer to the trees and ground. They are woodland specialists and are very cool to watch.
newchick:
Hey Tracey, this morning I spotted a Falcon in the Silver Heights area it was perched in an ornamental plum tree, I also spotted a sparrow. So, curious if the Falcon may have been eyeing up the sparrow for lunch. :D Unsure if it was just a sparrow hawk, or a juvie Peregrine Falcon (I Don't think they could fly this far, they still are quite young.) But, had similar brown markings like our Juvie Peregrines.
susha:
And I think that that amazing lineage is showing itself in these four fine young birds who are almost ready to take off! :)
bcbird:
Why yes, yes I am.
I also appreciate the lineage echoed in the names you have given the males.
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