Manitoba Peregrines > McKenzie Seeds Peregrines
McKenzie Seeds - 2012 / Brooklyn & Hurricane
RCF:
I was in Brandon today and I took some video of Brooklyn coming and going out of the nest box. I am just an amateur so it's not perfect. :P I tweaked the video so you would also see Brooklyn feeding the kids on the webcam.
http://youtu.be/zPCwBw4D6tk
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: Kinderchick on June 12, 2012, 12:48 ---That is a very interesting analogy, TPC. Makes me wonder, then, why "Pa" in the Netherlands is still incubating his eggs. :-\
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That may be his response to the "new" female. But he's done this before so it may just be his "thing" when faced with eggs. Could be like Doorly the former resident male in Topeka, Kansas who kept destroying the eggs in his nest. No one could say if he was doing it because he knew the eggs weren't viable or because it was his thing. When one egg did hatch, he immediately switched to "daddy" mode and didn't break eggs after that.
Kinderchick:
That is a very interesting analogy, TPC. Makes me wonder, then, why "Pa" in the Netherlands is still incubating his eggs. :-\
Pense:
Yes that explains it. Thanks for the reply TPC!
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: Pense on June 11, 2012, 20:56 ---I have a question now about the discarded last egg. Do we know how the parent falcons know or decide that an egg is no longer viable?
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Have you ever spun a hard-boiled egg and a raw egg? If you have, in a simplified form, it's like that :) As the chicks develop, they go from raw eggs to "hard-boiled". At hatching stage, it may be that if the chick dies in the egg, the adults can't "hear" it anymore. To provide a possible human equivalent (reverse anthropomorphism ;)) if a close companion, spouse, child, pet, is quieter than usual, isn't our impulse to think that something is "wrong"? If the response (excluding the pets of course) is "nothing" do we necessarily believe it? Or do we wait and watch until we are sure it is "nothing" or that it is "something"? Simplified answer but hopefully it gives you the sense of how it works.
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