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Migration: Raptors / Fall
The Peregrine Chick:
Here are some amazing numbers - Panama, Oct 27
Turkey Vulture 548,740
Swainson's Hawk 248,371
American Kestrel 0
Merlin 1
Peregrine Falcon 3
Unknown Buteo 67,233 - couldn't identify what type of Buteo spp of hawks
Unknown Falcon 1
Unknown Eagle 0
Unknown Raptor 24,700 - couldn't identify what type of raptor species
Notes from the Observation Team
Observation times: 08:00:00 to 17:00:00 (total = 8.75 hours)
Official Counter: Ariel Aguirre
Observers: Daniel Hinckley, Laura Reyes, Venicio Wilson
Visitors: Rosabel Miró, Karl Kaufmann, Itzel Fong, Yenifer Díaz, Javier Lasso, Alfredo de Albatros Media.
Weather: NW winds all morning. No rain.
Raptor Observations: Apocalypse. Wow!
Non-raptor Observations: 15 Wood Storks.
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: susha on October 19, 2011, 18:57 ---That's so interesting, Cooper! TPC, is it possible that a Gryofalcon could make its way this far south?!?
--- End quote ---
Gyrfalcons overwinter in South Dakota, so yup, they will be migrating though I believe its a bit later, so long as they have food and fair weather they will stay where they are before heading south even though South Dakota isn't like South America!
photosbydennis:
Yep...they have been seen this far South. I searched for one a few years back down Hwy # 59 with no luck.
susha:
That's so interesting, Cooper! TPC, is it possible that a Gryofalcon could make its way this far south?!?
Cooper:
Ooh, I would like to see the photo too!
I can't remember whether I reported this last year but I had a visitor to my backyard last year. He landed on a dead tree not twenty feet from me. He looked all the world like an albino peregrine to me but much larger. We stared at each other for the longest while (me wishing I had a camera). He spoke to me in just a one syllable squawk as if to say "what?". I did inch my way to the house in search of my camera and he seemed content to wait. Of course by the time I got back he was gone. Thereafter I poured through "The Birds of Canada (Godfrey, Crosy) and surfed the internet and came to the conclusion that, although I thought he could be a gyrfalcon, he was just too far south and therefore he must be a prairie falcon. His hunkered stance was very much like one of the illustrations in The Birds of Canada and this photo I found on the net: http://sdakotabirds.com/species_photos/prairie_falcon_1.htm My only concern was the bird I saw was much, much paler in colouration.
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