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West Winnipeg - 2018 / A Death in the Family - Beatrix (2011-2018)
Alison:
Thank you so much for the update and further information on Beatrix, TPC.
Rogers Wildlife Rehabilitation Center has now posted anr update:
We got an email from the project coordinator of the Peregrine Falcon Recovery Project in Manitoba, Canada last night and got some cool backstory on the peregrine falcon, Beatrix!
"One of the supporters of our Project found and passed along your facebook report on the peregrine that was injured in your recent hailstorm. First of all, thank you! Your newest patient, as you have discovered through the BBL is one of ours.
Your patient is Beatrix, a 2011 wild-hatched female from our longest running nestsite here in Manitoba - the Radisson Hotel in downtown Winnipeg. She has also been the resident female in our West Winnipeg territory for the last two years and has successfully raised four offspring - four females (Belle, Bristol, Tiggy & Tuppence) and two males (Beaumont & Bishop). Her daughter Bristol was identified south of Winnipeg in Grand Forks, North Dakota just this spring.
In 2011 all of the Radisson chicks were named, by popular vote, after historical conservationalists. She was named after Beatrix Potter the English author, illustrator, mycologist and conservationist who left all of her property to the National Trust which now makes up most of England's Lake District National Park. Beatrix's siblings were named Carson after Rachel Carson of Silent Spring fame, Cade after Tom Cade the founding chairman of The Peregrine Fund and Fyfe after Richard Fyfe who founded the Canadian Anatum Peregrine Falcon Recovery Program in the 1970s.
Our project is part of Richard Fyfe's national recovery program and we began releasing captive-bred chicks in 1981. The first confirmed wild peregrine nest in Manitoba since before WW2 occurred in 1989 and Beatrix is a great grand-daughter from that first wild nest.
I would greatly appreciate if you could send me an update on her condition (she looks good in the photos on your Facebook page) and what her prognosis is. Hopefully she is releasable and that you can let me know when she is released (perhaps with a couple of photos) and we can watch out for her up here and send you and all your volunteers and supporters updates. Our experience with her is that she is a tough, capable little bird so we hope that with the help of the Rogers Wildlife Rehab she can be back on her way home soon.
Thank you again and I hope to hear from you soon."
https://www.facebook.com/Rogers-Wildlife-Rehabilitation-Center-398035120217303/
carly:
Thank you for the update TPC! I just got home and saw they've added more photos of her to their site with a 'story to come' mention.
Sure hope she can be on her way home soon, hate to see her have a fight for her site when she finally gets here if it's too late :-\
GCG:
;D YES! I believe she became quite the CTV celebrity. She certainly surprised some workers. And many photo ops!
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: bcbird on March 21, 2016, 13:18 ---Back story?
Was it Beatrix that was picked up as a grounded fledgling by Ms Dolittle and popped in a cardboard box?
--- End quote ---
No Beatrix is from the Radisson and went down the smokestack downtown. It was two days after she fledged. Had her checked out by Wildlife Haven and then she and her brother Carson came back out to the Radisson and we released them together back into the nestbox and their brother Cade was overseeing the whole activity from the wall above our heads. That was in 2011.
In 2013 she reappeared in the West Winnipeg territory in October hunting giant water bugs in mid-air (disgustingly unappetizing but very cool to watch) then she was back in the Spring of 2014 bright and early to welcome Beau back and they had 4 chicks - Beaumont, Bishop, Bristol (who's in Grand Forks last we heard) and Belle. Back again in 2015 and after a set-to between Beau and Ty at the nest site, she settled down with Ty and they had 2 chicks - Tiggy (who ate something she shouldn't have but recovered) and Tuppence.
bcbird:
Back story?
Was it Beatrix that was picked up as a grounded fledgling by Ms Dolittle and popped in a cardboard box?
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