Other Peregrine Projects > USA Peregrines
MN / Elk River - 2008-22
Liz:
I remember why they close one eye, from last year. But I didn't know the first part. Thanks again for the knowledge, TPC! :D
And wow, mom is squawking away. It sounds like, "Honey, I really need to stretch my wings and, ya know, drop the kids off at the pool. Get your tail-feathers over here!"
carly:
Mama in the nestbox this morning looking perky, alert and quite noisy!
The Peregrine Chick:
Watch their eyes - if they look "light" that is their closed eyelid. The snooze, as I call it, minute eyes closed, open look around, close again. For folks with cats as pets, same kind of thing that cats do when they are dozing.
They also close one eye when they want to look at something up-close - monocular vision for close up, binocular for distances. That cute little head tilt isn't actually for looking ahead but rather up with one eye.
allikat:
Thank you TPC...great explanation and I know understand why.
The Peregrine Chick:
If both the adults are inside at night and a predator came in, there would be no way for either of them to fight effectively. And not all adults stay in the nestbox unless they are incubating or brooding. At the Radisson, prior to the beginning of incubation, one adult would sit on the edge of the nestbox, the other usually below on the sign. And they don't really seem to like to be inside anything unless its the breeding season. I've seen them in the pouring rain right outside a nestbox long after the chicks have fledged and they ignore the dry box.
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