Other Peregrine Projects > USA Peregrines
CA / San Jose - 2009-15
Kinderchick:
--- Quote from: Ellie on April 18, 2010, 16:47 ---Not a nice question to ask but perhaps Tracey would be able to answer this. Do the parent/parents remove the deceased wee one from the nest or does someone have to intervene and remove it. So sad! They are such cuties, all fluffy and white. :'(
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Interesting question, Ellie, because I was actually wondering the same thing. So thanks for your attempt to answer Ellie's question, TPC because you also answered it for me as well as others, I am sure.
The Peregrine Chick:
It can be one or the other. The adults do remove deceased chicks (depending on size in my experience). I have heard anecdotally of dead chicks being fed to siblings but I've never seen anything like that ... and my question would be, if a chick dies, would an adult trust feeding it to its siblings. That and peregrines don't practice siblicide or infanticide so I'm not sure it's a normal response to cannibalize their own young - but I admit its just outside my area of knowledge/experience. As for outsiders removing chicks, I've done it before - both before and after we had the FalconCam. I can't think of any other times that a chick was missing from the nest without my having removed it from the box.
Know that doesn't really answer your question Ellie, best I've got for you though ....
Ellie:
Not a nice question to ask but perhaps Tracey would be able to answer this. Do the parent/parents remove the deceased wee one from the nest or does someone have to intervene and remove it. So sad! They are such cuties, all fluffy and white. :'(
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: Kinderchick on April 17, 2010, 21:11 ---
--- Quote from: The Peregrine Chick on March 22, 2010, 20:18 ---Fourth egg laid on 17 March 2010.
Clara & Esteban Colbert are in "hard" incubation at this point.
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What exactly is meant by "hard" incubation, TPC? ???
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peregrines don't begin incubating typically until the second last egg is laid. If it's colder they may start an egg earlier, a little warmer/hot maybe not until last egg laid. Hard incubation is when the eggs are being incubated 24/7. If very warm, even during hard incubation incubating adult will get off the egg for short periods of time.
allikat:
Awwwww, that's really sad.
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