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McKenzie Seeds - 2009 / Zeus & Hurricane
The Peregrine Chick:
Banding is set - next Thursday, July 2nd. Everyone meet at the parkade in the city centre (free parking) as we believe that is where we can set y'all up for the best view. Only Project staff will be going onto the building. We hope to meet everyone there at 10am. We need to meet the Brandon crew at 10:30 so that should give us enough time to get everyone organized before we need to get going.
Banding won't take more than 1 hour all told - you'll know when its finished as the parents will freak out (for a second time) when we return their chicks to them. We will then be heading off for lunch at the Double Decker as is our tradition and everyone is welcome to join us. We hope to be back on the road around 1-1:30 so that we can Bob Jones our bander off to his next gig!
When you have your transpo worked out, drivers pm me with the names of your passengers and I'll send you a map with all the pertinent information.
Grumpy:
--- Quote from: The Peregrine Chick on June 26, 2009, 16:09 ---Okay, looks like we have identities on our birds in Brandon ....
male is Zeus - 1995 wild-hatch from the McKenzie Seeds Building; resident male since 2002, two sabbatical years - 2003 & 2007. He has had three mates - I/*T (2002), Holly (2004-2008) - 10 chicks total todate = Donna (2008 nested in Saskatoon) & Terminator (2008-09 nesting in Grand Forks) are nesting, Obi-Wan spent the summer of 2006 in West Winnipeg with Lucy (2005 Radisson chick) but did not nest.
female is new - and a total surprise - its Hurricane from the 2007 wild-hatch at the Radisson and who was observed in Grand Forks this spring at the nest site of Brandon's Terminator. When we measured Hurricane's legs during banding, she measured as male, so we attached male bands. Appears that Mistral was tiny but a female and that Hurricane was too was female but that she was small and so were her legs! We were sure we had two males and a female that year, but it may be that we had one male (Chinook) and one small female (Hurricane) and one tiny female (Mistral). Taku was found to be a female during her necropsy but we couldn't sex her because she died before banding - and you can see how much our female this year has grown in comparison with her brothers! Also possible that 2007 was an all female year - three small females and one tiny female. All we need is for Chinook to turn up somewhere and we will know for sure!
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Yikes. How often does that happen that is known, and is there any other way to sex the chicks at banding ? Are blood samples or some other relativly easy tests available ?
Further does it happen that a female may be driven off the nest, and 2 males raise a brood ?
bccs:
Fantastic news ;D
BirdLover:
this is awesome TPC! What a surprize this is. Do we have the day that banding will take place? I told my boss I won't be available to work whichever day it is. ;D
The Peregrine Chick:
Okay, looks like we have identities on our birds in Brandon ....
male is Zeus - 1995 wild-hatch from the McKenzie Seeds Building; resident male since 2002, two sabbatical years - 2003 & 2007. He has had three mates - I/*T (2002), Holly (2004-2008) - 10 chicks total todate = Donna (2008 nested in Saskatoon) & Terminator (2008-09 nesting in Grand Forks) are nesting, Obi-Wan spent the summer of 2006 in West Winnipeg with Lucy (2005 Radisson chick) but did not nest.
female is new - and a total surprise - its Hurricane from the 2007 wild-hatch at the Radisson and who was observed in Grand Forks this spring at the nest site of Brandon's Terminator. When we measured Hurricane's legs during banding, she measured as male, so we attached male bands. Appears that Mistral was tiny but a female and that Hurricane was too was female but that she was small and so were her legs! We were sure we had two males and a female that year, but it may be that we had one male (Chinook) and one small female (Hurricane) and one tiny female (Mistral). Taku was found to be a female during her necropsy but we couldn't sex her because she died before banding - and you can see how much our female this year has grown in comparison with her brothers! Also possible that 2007 was an all female year - three small females and one tiny female. All we need is for Chinook to turn up somewhere and we will know for sure!
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