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Eurasian Kestrel - Netherlands / Beleef de Lente
irenekl:
Yes, they are monitoring via cam. The male looks very different from the female. Never a doubt which one you are seeing. Almost daily the cam operators post clips from the past 24 hour period so I'm guessing they are going over the tapes of every hour. Often they'll post activity from the night time.
The Peregrine Chick:
First I'm not an European Kestrel expert and every bird has different tolerances, but generally, based on what I do know ...
Quick answer is: Without a partner, the female will not be able to feed five chicks and herself. Kestrels (both ours and theirs) are very fast growing and need alot of food. She might be able to keep herself, or herself and a couple of the chicks fed, but there is the problem of the first week to 10 days when the chicks can't thermoregulate - if she's out hunting the chicks may die of exposure, even in a nestbox.
Question - I haven't checked out the blog, but the "observers", are they watching day and night? Are they watching in person or via the cam? Are they able to tell the male from the female if he is coming back at dark to incubate? We have had males at the Radisson who did almost no incubating and were very elusive - I spent days watching (in person on rooftops) and never saw the males anywhere near the nest/nestboxes.
Long answer is: the male may still be around just very elusive in which case there is nothing to worry about. If he really is gone, the quick answer applies.
Does that help ...
irenekl:
Tracy, can you provide any information on the ability of the female kestrel's ability to incubate and raise a hatch on her own? Will she abandon this nest before even trying to incubate, if the male is indeed gone/dead? Would she be stressed about his absence? Alot of stress at the nest site from day one! Upon converting the dutch blog text to english I read that the male has not been seen in 3 days.
bev.:
Sometimes when we aer observing , they appear so quickly that we miss them. HOpefuly he is around . I guess I better watch a bit more. Not that I can make him appear :) :)
maggieblue:
;D Five eggs today which is probably a full clutch. The observers there are a little concerned though that they haven't seen the male for more than 2 days which is apparently unusual at this stage. Hopefully he is just out hunting and will show up soon.
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