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NE / Omaha - Woodmen Tower - 2022 / Mintaka & Chayton
RCF:
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I can access the cam on EarthCam but I can't access the Woodmen website, I keep getting blocked due to security settings. I haven't set any settings related to this page so I wondered if anyone else had/is having similar problems ... ???
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I have no access for the same reason...it worked last year! Very strange!
Skygirlblue thinks it may have something to do with being in Canada. It works for her and many others on BCAW.
The Peregrine Chick:
New young bird at the Woodmen Life Building in Omaha. Distinctive looking - very white and very dark brown. Think I saw Mintaka in the box earlier and this new bird is definitely big enough to be a female, but I'm pretty sure "she" is a 2021 hatch, maybe even from the Woodmen box considering how interested "she" was in what was on the other side of the glass. Nothing was going on, bird was just really interested. :)
I can access the cam on EarthCam but I can't access the Woodmen website, I keep getting blocked due to security settings. I haven't set any settings related to this page so I wondered if anyone else had/is having similar problems ... ???
The Peregrine Chick:
Just a few thoughts for consideration ...
Rochester / Beauty - given that an unbanded female moved into the nest with Beauty's new boyfriend the day after does raise the likelihood that her death was related to a territorial dispute - most of conflicts don't happen in the nestbox and given where these peregrines live, we only see a very small portion of their lives. Princess had a heck of a fight close to a decade ago, one she spent 3 days hanging out inside the nestbox recovering from - she'd never stayed in the nestbox without eggs/young chicks before. She limped for quite a while and she had cuts/abrasions on her head. At 15 she would have had a hard time matching a younger bird.
Warren Michigan female - no idea here of course, but Pop disappeared one day mid-incubation. His son T-Rex abandoned his mate in South Winnipeg and moved in downtown with Madame to raise his father's four (if I remember correctly) chicks. It was like they were his own kids, smoothest transition ever. T-Rex never went back to his old mate, she eventually moved to another site closer to downtown. Holly's mate Zeus vanished not once but twice for a year each time from the McKenzie Seeds site. Returned to pick up where he left off except in his last year when he was replaced by Brooklyn. (Brooklyn hatched in Brandon during one of Zeus's sabbatical years). We've also had a few younger females go missing - most recently Marilyn in 2020, Etta in 2021 - they were here, then they were gone and they were not replaced by other females. No point in speculating what happened until there is perhaps more news ...
Omaha / Chayton - she was younger but we are a little lucky to have longer lived birds here - the average age for a wild peregrine is 5-7 years, so she was "older". Her death is definitely a mystery, could be she was injured (fight or collision or ??), bacterial infection, viral infection, response to something toxic (not particularly likely) or maybe something like Taku's stroke-caused brain damage - no cause, just happened. But H5N1 is a concern particularly for domestic birds so understandably folks would be concerned. Again, may just have to wait and see ...
RCF:
--- Quote ---And at Warren Michigan, the 4 year old female has just vanished into thin air. Her mate has been incubating their 4 eggs on and off the past 6 days - no sign or sounds of another female. They did a search locally and no body found, no one has reported her injured (she is banded and is the sister of our resident female here at my site).
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I haven't looked there recently! That's sad!
carly:
--- Quote from: RCF on April 19, 2022, 16:35 ---
--- Quote from: carly on April 19, 2022, 06:29 ---Sadly, Chayton passed away on cam last night. She was lethargic and seemed disoriented and slowly collapsed on her clutch of 4 eggs and died. Heartbreaking to say the least.
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Sounds similar to what happened with Beauty at Rochester, NY. I wonder if it's the Avian flue? I hope not! :-\
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I hope not either but wouldn't surprise me if it was. :( When Beauty passed, I thought okay well she was 15 years old and her mom went at 16 so you could maybe pass it off as a natural thing but watching Chayton last night..she was only 8 years old and some of the signs were similar!. But then again, might be coincidental.
And at Warren Michigan, the 4 year old female has just vanished into thin air. Her mate has been incubating their 4 eggs on and off the past 6 days - no sign or sounds of another female. They did a search locally and no body found, no one has reported her injured (she is banded and is the sister of our resident female here at my site).
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