Manitoba Peregrines > Other Peregrine Sightings in Manitoba
Non-Resident Sightings - 2020
BirdLover:
Speaking of Merlin, I was driving to work this morning and finally got to see one of the West Brandon Merlins sitting on the side of the road. As I approached it took off right in front of me. Been hearing these guys for about a month now and couldn't find them, until today.
:D
Kinderchick:
--- Quote ---Hadn't read this information before I answered on your new thread Willmax, but from your description, you saw a merlin, not a peregrine.
--- End quote ---
Yes, willmax, that's what I was thinking it was, a merlin, but was having a "senior's moment"! ;) I remember when TPC came to my school to visit the Kinderchicklets, she mentioned that merlins like to move into abandoned crow's nests, in very tall evergreen trees. They do look a lot like our peregrine juvies, don't they?
willmax11:
I rec'd this reply from the Oak Hammock Marsh Resident Naturalist today.
I have not heard of any recent sightings of Peregrines at Oak Hammock. But I know most years the adults do hunt at the marsh when raising their young and there were a few sightings earlier this spring. Later in the summer (usually August) the young and adults show up to learn to hunt and hunt and are seen quite frequently.
Resident Naturalist
Oak Hammock Marsh Interpretive Centre
So maybe I can switch my watching to an area outside Wpg. in the future.
Gets me out of the house anyway.
willmax11:
I defer to your greater wisdom of course and thanks for moving these postings.
I wish I had been told about this b4 I started this sep. thread.
Now that I have more info about the calls I def. will get video next time, even if it only records the sounds of the calls.
I thought I read on the Nat. Geographic site that Peregrine’s range was up to the Tundra.
Perhaps b4 their decline.
I live very near the Red River, OHMarsh is 20KM. away to the North West.
On this site the one video of a Falcon chasing a Duck may be another type of Falcon.
http://macaulaylibrary.org/search.do
So, to clarify; Since 1989 there are only 3 sites in Manitoba that have nesting
pairs of Peregrine Falcons. Therefore it is impossible to have any sightings
of unbanded Falcons elsewhere.
Helen b:
Thanks Peregrine chick for this explanation, the more things I read on the differnt species the more interesting it becomes. I think over thewinter I will read more on the species so that next year I can identify the various birds everyone is seeing and hearing.
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