It must be age, but I always have trouble identifying the female & male names correctly.
It isn't you Moka, these names are easier to remember with the stories behind them ...
Brooklyn - male - there were four names chosen for the McKenzie Seeds chicks - 2 male names and 2 female names. Unfortunately we had 3 males and 1 female. The two female names were Brooklyn and Taylor and the female had a band with a T in the "number" so she became Taylor and Brooklyn became Brooklyn. Now, given that 50-70% of all peregrine chicks die in the first year, there was an better than decent chance that only one chick would survive to breed somewhere. Now because Murphy is an unofficial staff person, it figures that Brooklyn the Boy would be the one who survived.
Hurricane - female - was a small chick and was banded as a male. The name was one of a series of "wind" names chosen that year, most of which fortunately could be male or female. The other names were Taku, Chinook and Mistral - that was the year we had a whole series of tornadoes in the province - the chicks used to sit on the edge of the box and watch the storms come in from the west. Again because Murphy works with us, Hurricane turned out to be a female so while her band is a bit confusing, her name is gender neutral.
Hopefully the stories will make it easier to keep these two straight ...
