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West Winnipeg - 2018 / A Death in the Family - Beatrix (2011-2018)
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: newchick on July 13, 2016, 08:59 ---How's Beatrix doing?
Rogers Wildlife Rehabilitation Center I'm waiting on paperwork from Canada to fly her home. She's doing well just can't make the trip on her own.
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TPC, I asked them for an update on their Facebook feed and this was the answer. I have a question: If She is "flown" back to Winnipeg, will She be released near the West Winnipeg Site? and will She be well/strong enough for migration? Will flying her back to Winnipeg mess with her orientation?
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Don't know the answer to any of those questions really, she isn't coming up here to be released, she is coming up here to finish her rehabilitation in anticipation of her being re-released. And arrival isn't imminent, we have 4 levels of government paperwork to hopefully work our way though yet.
As for her orientation, remember that the first time she migrated as a chick she had no idea where she was going or why but she still ended up where most of our peregrines seem to end up for the winter. We don't understand what all the cues and clues most birds use to migrate though there is lots of speculation. The fact that a 4 month old bird can fly from Winnipeg to Mexico all by itself just the way thousands of its ancestors have done for millions of years (yes, literally - it is believed they diverged from other falcons in the late Miocene to early Pliocene - 5-8 million years ago) is enough to convince me that there has been a lot more going on in those little brains and bodies for a very long time and that we are probably never going to come close to fully understanding how they do it, which works for me. So no, Beatrix won't have any problem figuring out what she wants to do when she finally gets the chance to do it.
newchick:
How's Beatrix doing?
Rogers Wildlife Rehabilitation Center I'm waiting on paperwork from Canada to fly her home. She's doing well just can't make the trip on her own.
Like · Reply · 23 hrs
TPC, I asked them for an update on their Facebook feed and this was the answer. I have a question: If She is "flown" back to Winnipeg, will She be released near the West Winnipeg Site? and will She be well/strong enough for migration? Will flying her back to Winnipeg mess with her orientation?
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: susha on July 02, 2016, 11:09 ---Is there a point where she'll have spent so much time in captivity that she won't be able to function in the wild, TPC? ie. she hasn't been hunting to feed herself, etc.
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No, they don't forget how do be a wild peregrine. Even falconry birds trained from almost hatching to work and live with humans regularly take off and do just fine in the wild. All the important stuff is hardwired. And there have been lots of birds that have spent a year or more in captivity and been returned to the wild no problem. We don't believe she will take that long.
susha:
Is there a point where she'll have spent so much time in captivity that she won't be able to function in the wild, TPC? ie. she hasn't been hunting to feed herself, etc.
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: kekes on July 02, 2016, 10:48 ---i was wondering, as she has missed this breeding season, will she come back here next year, or will she stay down south ... is it common for them to always or almost always return to the same nesting area ...
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Her hardwiring is such that wherever she is released, she will migrate south to Mexico and then head back north - likely back to here since she has nested successfully here twice and she hatched from here. But we will have to see how she does and what she wants to do. All we can do is get her healthy enough to be released back into the wild.
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