Manitoba Peregrines > McKenzie Seeds Peregrines
McKenzie Seeds - 2013 / Brooklyn & Hurricane
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: RCF on June 19, 2013, 15:43 ---Even though the display says it's a juvenile peregrine, it looks more like a merlin to me. I had a good look when I there and the legs are much smaller than the adults peregrine legs. I thought by the time they are banded/fledged, the legs are the same size as an adult. These taxidermy specimens are over 80 years old.
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To my eye, their immature peregrine is a Prairie Falcon .... same basic size as a peregrine, we generally only see them in passing here, more common (relatively speaking) out west.
click on image to see larger size
Great prairie falcon (& others) hunting ducks video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-FZdIrKyBk
** not particularly graphic but for those who are a bit/very squeamish, but ducks do die in this video! **
RCF:
Even though the display says it's a juvenile peregrine, it looks more like a merlin to me. I had a good look when I there and the legs are much smaller than the adults peregrine legs. I thought by the time they are banded/fledged, the legs are the same size as an adult. These taxidermy specimens are over 80 years old.
RCF:
Rose and I went to the Brandon General Museum today knowing they had a display featuring Brooklyn and Hurricane and they also had a very large monitor that is streaming the CBC nest cam in Brandon. They have two stuffed peregrines from 1926 from the Oak Lake area. (from the B.J. Hale collection). One looked like an adult and the other a juvenile. After speaking with the young lady who was there about the display, she told us that someone had been speaking to a person from the recovery project and said they were going to visit the museum. I would only assume that it was TPC she was talking about.
The Peregrine Chick:
Looking at the McKenzie Seeds chicks, is won't surprise me if we have 2 females and a male when it comes to banding a couple of weeks. But it could just be the age difference between them as they are only half-way to banding age, so it will be interesting to see.
The Peregrine Chick:
Chronology for the morning ...
pre-dawn - chicks on their own - makes sense, they are 9/10 days old and are pretty much able to thermoregulate & keep themselves warm, not that that is the real issue at the moment ;)
0523h - first breakfast
0729h - first wanderer thinks about wandering then returns to chickpile
0755h - wandering free-for-all and Hurricane looks absolutely harried - chickpile reforms about 0825h
0920h - second breakfast
1020h - rebel makes its way to front of nestbox to find "own" shade, Hurricane keeps other two in the shade until the roof takes over then leaves the chicks to their own devices with I daresay a sigh of relief ... she certainly looked eager to leave :D
Weather for the day ....
Day - Mostly cloudy in the morning, then overcast. High of 27C. Winds from the ESE at 5 to 15 km/h.
Night - Partly cloudy. Fog overnight. Low of 14C. Breezy. Winds from the East at 15 to 20 km/h.
Currently 23C and looks like winds are E/SE <10km/h right now
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