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ON / Hamilton - Sheraton Hotel - 2008-21
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gran2496:
Today Laura made the big hop up to the nest ledge. Poor little Brock was looking like she wanted to get up there too!
gran2496:
Thanks for posting the link, I couldn't figure out how to post. It's amazing the difference a week makes in the size of the chicks. Little Brock looked very tiny beside her big sister.
RCF:
BANDS! NAMES! EXTRA PEREGRINE!
June 19, 2013: With major help from climbers John Millar and Chris Phinney, who had to fend off a very aggressive Madame X, around 15:00 yesterday the two chicks were collected from the nest ledge and brought into a reception area graciously provided by the Sheraton Hotel where they were weighed, gendered, banded and named. Anne Yagi of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR) first attached an aluminum US Fish and Wildlife Service band with a unique number by which it can be identified in future. Next, a plastic band with a large letter and numeral and a piece of coloured tape, both of which will help identify the birds through binoculars and telescopes, were put on the other leg.
Our theme for bird names this year is "Heroes and Heroines of the War of 1812". Chick No. 1 (left) weighed in at 858 grams, clearly a female, and was named "Laura" for Laura Secord. Chick No. 2 (right)was named "Brock", for General Brock. Brock weighed in at 422 grams, well in the low part of the weight range for a male, but being only 19 days old there is some doubt as to gender. We will have a better idea on that in about two weeks. (No. 2 would have been named "Tecumseh" but we learned that a Peregrine chick at Windsor, Ontario was given that name a few weeks ago and we try not to have two birds with the same name.) Pictures of the banding are now available for viewing!
Click here to View = http://falcons.hamiltonnature.org/gallery2013/band2013/
Banding video = http://falcons.hamiltonnature.org/gallery2013/banding_video.htm
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