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UT / Salt Lake City - 2008-2013
The Peregrine Chick:
When I was speaking with Brenda at the Elk River Station (Minnesota) she mentionned that it was low 40F Monday night (the chicks hatched Monday) and none of their chicks had problems. It will be interesting to hear what the necropsies show on the chick(s) and if they were temperature-related deaths.
skygirlblue:
I don't want to second guess the experts, but I watched the first 2 chicks for quite a while ... they were both feisty and moving quite a bit ... holding their little heads up ... "normal" looking stuff...the 3rd chick I only saw right after hatching, and by the time it dried out, it was too dark ... so it was such a shock to tune in the next day and see two missing chicks ... the remaining chick and egg looked ok, but I guess you can only tell so much looking through a cam ... I am glad they were able to recover one of the eyases. I hope it sheds some light on this tragedy ...
The Peregrine Chick:
I'd be surprised if the cause was the temperature from the information on their website. Peregrine chicks can't thermoregulate so the parents are in charge of temperature control for the first week, ten days anyway. And they do know how to keep their chicks warm/cool/dry. Warmer is actually easier for them to do, basically they sit on them, which is what they are doing anyway right after hatching. That all three chicks should have died so quickly in the first couple of days, would make me suspicious. The fourth egg with a hole isn't enough information for me to speculate upon. Don't get me wrong, it could have been the temperature, don't know enough about the site, the adults or the weather the days in question. But like Taku last year, the deaths seems so out of character. It will be very interesting to find out what happened there, hope they do/are able to post the results when they get them.
skygirlblue:
Finally an update posted on the main webpage...I sure do hope they are able to figure out what happened...so sad... :'(
http://wildlife.utah.gov/peregrine/
Enraptured:
This is so sad! It's such a beautiful nesting site and a beautiful location as well as two great camera views! I hope this pair tries to nest again this year.
Thanks for listing so many other webcam sites!
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