Other Peregrine Projects > USA Peregrines
OH / Columbus - Rhodes Tower - 2008-16
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: Eli on April 27, 2009, 10:54 ---Now she is all fluffed up and sitting right on the edge of the nestbox with her mouth open; to me, she looks distressed, but I don't know enough about falcons to judge.
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All peregrines pant to cool off. Adults can also go to water and/or shade whereas chicks will sprawl out on their bellies with limbs in all directions - the look like Wiley Coyote after a fall. And they will do the same when they start flying - I've seen chicks 2-3 weeks after fledging sprawled out on nearby roofs cooling off this way ... very funny, until one starts getting calls about injured peregrines with broken wings/backs that are "just lying there".
carly:
It's very hot there today, almost 30c and she's right in the sun so no doubt she's hot. She was like that yesterday in the heat as well. IF the air temp is 28c, think of it like this, she is surrounded by sides of the box so the wind is diminished and it's probably 35c for her.
Orville had moved the eggs towards the back a bit yesterday but she seems to like them up front.
Elaine L:
Now she is all fluffed up and sitting right on the edge of the nestbox with her mouth open; to me, she looks distressed, but I don't know enough about falcons to judge.
Elaine L:
Scout is on the eggs now, and she is looking around alot, almost standing straight up, is very restless and agitated; I hope she is o.k., and that this is just a sign of an impending egg.
maggieblue:
Great to see both present and accounted for at sunset. Scout on the ledge and Orville in the box. ;D
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