Manitoba Peregrines > Brandon Tower Peregrines
Tower Nest - 2013 / ? & ?
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: RCF on May 26, 2013, 20:55 ---It's a long way up where she was. :) We also noticed she had something like thread or something fuzzy wrapped around the base of the aerial. It may be covering the solar panel and that could be why it stopped transmitting. :-\
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Who knows, could be indeed. We'll have to see about getting photos of it if we can - you'll have many more chances than we will before we are next out but I'll make sure our other Brandon spotters know to take photos if they get a chance ... I think you have the best camera skills and equipment but it never hurts to cast a wider net. I'll also see if the folks on site can maybe get a look at it.
RCF:
It's a long way up where she was. :) We also noticed she had something like thread or something fuzzy wrapped around the base of the aerial. It may be covering the solar panel and that could be why it stopped transmitting. :-\
The Peregrine Chick:
That means that it could well be the female that was released in Neepawa in 2011 ... which would make sense with the reports of Juliet outside of Regina at last download ... am going through photos to see if I have one that shows which foot the Neepawa female's band is on ... will probably get information on Juliet's location tomorrow which should confirm.
It would make sense if it is the Neepawa female ... she spent last year down Minot way but was released in Neepawa and Brandon is pretty much on a straight line from Minot to Neepawa ... not that she would go back to Neepawa when the Tower Site is so much more appealing and it came with a male ;)
Well done RCF!!! ;D *clap*
RCF:
I took some photos today standing below the three towers about a good long block away, looking about 13 to 14 stories up and I think the falcon with the transmitter has a red band on its left leg, which would mean the falcon is a captive bred bird. :)
The Peregrine Chick:
You are quite right, a transmitter that is "off" doesn't necessarily mean that a bird is dead. However, a transmitter goes "off" because the technology fails or because the bird dies and the transmitter can't transmit anymore.
Because you are asking after them, Rain's transmitter stopped transmitting in Arkansas in October and Rosser's stopped transmitting in December in Texas after he travelled back up from Mexico. When their transmitters went offline no bodies - dead or alive - were found so they could be still alive but 7 out of 10 peregrine chicks die in the first year, so it is just as likely that the transmitters went offline because they died. At this point the only way to know if they survived is for someone to see (or have seen) them alive and to report their band numbers. And we haven't had any reports but sometimes there is a time lag so we leave their status as "unknown" in our records.
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