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Alison:
--- Quote from: carly on December 17, 2009, 19:18 ---Alison - not sure if you saw this or not but thought I'd bump it up in case you missed it ;)
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Thank you for the update on Nova, Carly! He is such a handsome little juvie. I hope being a captive bird will work out well for him, but I can't help thinking he would be better off in the wild.
carly:
Alison - not sure if you saw this or not but thought I'd bump it up in case you missed it ;)
carly:
From BigFrank:
Nova was received from a breeding facility..the breeding facility in Wainright Alberta Canada which was responsible for the captive breeding program for birds released to the wild back when Peregrine conservation started. Recently CPF lost their grande dame of their education program Qtesh. She was over 20 years old. She had been in the Wainright facility as one of the breeding birds who produced many young for release. She was retired to CPF some years ago. When they heard of Qtesh's passing,they offered us a new Peregrine to "take her place". Nova was that bird. He was born(I always say that...hatched of course) in captivity and we accepted him happily. He was acclimated to people and is now a full and valuable member of our feathered educational team.
carly:
Awww...he's adorable Alison, he looks like he's smiling! I honestly don't know what his story is, save for he came late in the season and he was from out of province. It reminded me of Tybopra for some reason because the story I heard of him was that he was taken from a bridge in Quebec where the young were in danger of drowning due to the nest location so I thought perhaps it was another of those types of situations and maybe being so late in the season they couldn't find a home for him??
He looks healthy though, and that's the cleanest juvie I've ever seen :-X
allikat:
A very cute chick turned into a very handsome juvie....
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