Other Peregrine Projects > USA Peregrines
OH / Columbus - Rhodes Tower - 2008-16
carly:
--- Quote from: allikat on March 02, 2010, 15:55 ---The blog reads that there is still tons of time for Scout to find a mate....a read it the other day.
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Yes I know that but a few years ago, there would have been males fighting for the site is my point. There should be enough of a floater community to supply another male in a heatlhy population - I know the juvies migrate but in urban centres alot of them don't anymore and look at Quest, she's barely an hour from home - not much of a migration. It shouldn't be that you go a few years waiting on a tiercel - if that is the case, wouldn't they then still be endangered...get where I"m going with this.
I can see out West where the majority of the PF's migrate due to the climate that you'd have to wait until they come back but there have been several young females here that have spent the winter hanging out in trees and down by the lake...but no males...nada zip save for one juvie last September that we heard of.
allikat:
The blog reads that there is still tons of time for Scout to find a mate....a read it the other day.
Pam:
I agree, saw her earlier today - she did look kind of lonely! Hope there is not a real shortage of tiercels!
birdcamfan:
Good points Carly. She looks kind of quiet and lonely there right now.
carly:
I would have hoped, given the great location of this site that a new tiercel would have shown up by now. I know there is alot of time but it just underscores to me the lack of males. In other Ohio areas two longtime males have also recently presumably been lost and no one was there to take their place - one of the females, my own Lara had to leave her territory and fight another female (who sadly perished as a result and she was only 3 years old) to find a potential mate.
Here in Toronto - still 5 nest sites with no tiercels and instead 2 doing double duty. It doesn't give me the warm and fuzzies. Every time I read about an injured falcon down in the US, most times it seems to be a young tiercel. I wonder also if the falconers now being allowed to take juveniles are not also going take tiercels which will also contribute to the shortage while females sit alone waiting...
Yet I see Rochester and 1 or 2 other nest sites along the great lakes where tiercels are killing each other for nests. Are the nest sites we have not attractive to them? Perhaps when the program initially started up and there was a good population base to start with - they chose any nest site they could and now that their numbers are diminishing they are being more selective?
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