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NJ / Jersey City - 2008-21
Alison:
This is really part of the post above, but I couldn't post it there due to extreme "jumping" of the content of the reply box.
The sighting of *V/*5 is especially poignant, since in 2005, when she was born, the New Jersey nest had its share of tragedy. Several days before the eggs were due to hatch, the male was found not far from the nest, with a severed wing. He was rushed to The Raptor Trust, where he received the best of care, and recovered.
Here he is at The Raptor Trust after his recovery:
Meanwhile, the female was on her own with eggs about to hatch. She was provided with supplementary food, and she successfully raised three chicks on her own. One of these chicks is the one now in Connecticut.
The 2005 chicks:
Alison:
The four chicks are getting bigger:
And some good news from the site: it's great when a juvie from a previous year turns up with a nest.
May 17, 2010: A Jersey City alumnus nesting in Connecticut!
In June, 2005, we banded three peregrine chicks at the Jersey City nest site. One of them was a female with color band *V/*5. We recently got a resighting of this bird and learned she is nesting on a cliff in New Haven, Connecticut. The nest is located in East Rock Park , a city park with an interesting rocky ridge that is part of a series of ridges running north-south through the Connecticut Valley Lowlands of Massachusetts and Connecticut. At its peak it is about 550’ above sea level.
A river and reservoir system lie at the base of the cliff where *V/*5 is nesting, so the nesting pair has an excellent territory for roosting, foraging, and breeding: an inaccessible cliff face, extensive open space, nearby bodies of water, and abundant food sources – especially pigeons. Park staff and volunteer Steve Broker are monitoring the nesting peregrines.
*V/*5 has been nesting at this cliff site since 2009. Her mate is not banded. We will provide any more updates on this pair when we receive them from the folks in CT. It’s very exciting to see New Jersey peregrines contributing to the population recovery in natural habitats!
The Peregrine Chick:
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--- Quote from: Alison on May 13, 2010, 14:03 ---From the site:
May 10, 2010: Nestlings looking good!
Biologist Kathy Clark went to the nest yesterday to give the nestlings a health check.
All four of the hatchlings were looking good and healthy. Kathy had help from WCC volunteers Mike and Bonnie, who helped distract the adults long enough to get the young inside. Each chick was given a dose of medicine to prevent Trichomoniasis, the pigeon-borne disease that can kill young peregrines. They will get a second and final dose in two weeks at banding time.
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This is interesting, TPC. Do you do that with our peregrine chicks here in Manitoba? ???
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We haven't Kinderchick ... but that may have something to do with the fact that we (if I remember correctly) have only had one suspected trichomoniasis death here ...
Kinderchick:
--- Quote from: Alison on May 13, 2010, 14:03 ---From the site:
May 10, 2010: Nestlings looking good!
Biologist Kathy Clark went to the nest yesterday to give the nestlings a health check.
All four of the hatchlings were looking good and healthy. Kathy had help from WCC volunteers Mike and Bonnie, who helped distract the adults long enough to get the young inside. Each chick was given a dose of medicine to prevent Trichomoniasis, the pigeon-borne disease that can kill young peregrines. They will get a second and final dose in two weeks at banding time.
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This is interesting, TPC. Do you do that with our peregrine chicks here in Manitoba? ???
Alison:
From the site:
May 10, 2010: Nestlings looking good!
Biologist Kathy Clark went to the nest yesterday to give the nestlings a health check.
All four of the hatchlings were looking good and healthy. Kathy had help from WCC volunteers Mike and Bonnie, who helped distract the adults long enough to get the young inside. Each chick was given a dose of medicine to prevent Trichomoniasis, the pigeon-borne disease that can kill young peregrines. They will get a second and final dose in two weeks at banding time.
All four young were close in size, a good sign and a reflection of their all hatching on the same day one week ago. Often there is one that hatches later and is smaller than the rest.
We were able to verify that the adults are the same two birds that have nested here in recent years. The male is banded with a bicolor band that reads *2/*6 (black over green), banded in 2003 at Riverside Church in New York City. The female wears only a silver band (no color band) and we’ve not been able to read her band to know her origin. There’s no mistaking, however, that she continues to own the sky above Jersey City! She completely mastered the wind as she dove at the intruders to her nest.
Within minutes of the chicks’ return to the nest box, the female was back in the nest brooding her young. During the frequent feedings viewers can see that the four chicks love to eat, and will keep the adults busy hunting pigeons and other birds in the neighborhood.]
The chicks today:
The male And the female
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