Other Peregrine Projects > USA Peregrines
ME / BRI - 2009-16
carly:
Our lone chick is looking beautiful today, she's laying across the box right in front of her mama...kind of tucked a bit under her but not squashed anymore..she's too big..lol! One egg is outside mom's wing and one other under the other wing...so I suspect the little one will just by virtue of it's size convince them it's time to move on ;)
On the plus side, at least the little one won't be so lonely if mum continues to hang out with her :-*
The Peregrine Chick:
Most adults will ditch the eggs if they aren't fertile - Trey & Princess did in the first week of incubating last year - or when they realize egg/eggs aren't going to hatch. But not always. Depends on the experience of the pair and sometimes the pair themselves. Occurs to me that the Elk River female hung on to one of her eggs for quite a long time after hatching ... might be worth going back to check the Elk River MN thread from last years. Since this is their first successful hatch, next year they may be more adept.
And yes, if the eggs were still there when I went by to band, I'd pull them so I imagine the Maine Project will too ...
allikat:
I'm really surprised that instinct hasn't come in yet to just push the eggs away. Only TPC can answer the question of whether it's their instinct to still incubate or to push away?
carly:
I think they're going to have to go in and remove those eggs, she still won't stop incubating them..what's worse she tried to grab her huge chick by the neck now to drag it under her! Poor thing had a bulging crop and there is mama grabbing at it's neck trying to drag it under her with the eggs. The little one definitely won't starve as both parents just fed it but they might suffocate it :-X :-X
carly:
Checked on our chick this morning and mom still incubating those 3 eggs it seems. The poor chick is so big now but she keeps scrunching him/her under her with the eggs. They must be a young pair - probably don't realize it's time to push the eggs aside and focus on the wee one solely....She keeps readjusting and you can see the little one is kind of going 'hey mom' I want to see the world and you are squishing me :-X
The chick is huge now and as of today should be able to regulate it's own temperature...wonder what will happen tomorrow..
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