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Do peregrines mate for life?

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The Friesens:
Thank you for the response. Animals are so interesting sometimes I wish I could read their minds.. then again maybe not

Loriann:
""On the flip side, there have been a very (very) few rare cases of a male supplying food to two nearby incubating females and it has been assumed that the offspring from both nests were his ... but without DNA there really is no way to be sure.""

DIRTY PIMP-DADDY PEREGRINE !   ;D

msdolittle:

--- Quote from: The Peregrine Chick on April 09, 2009, 09:04 ---
On the flip side, there have been a very (very) few rare cases of a male supplying food to two nearby incubating females and it has been assumed that the offspring from both nests were his ... but without DNA there really is no way to be sure. 

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Paligamy in the perigrine world :o

The Peregrine Chick:

--- Quote from: The Friesens on April 09, 2009, 06:24 ---They say that geese have one partner for life, do peregrines also somehow I doubt that with all the confusion of whether it was princess or not.
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For life means so long as their mate returns - if a female goose lives to be six years old but her mate only lives to be three, she will find another one.  Peregrines are pretty much "lifers" as well.  Males/females who thought they lost their mates will abandon new ones when old ones reappear.  Territorial battles where the resident loses its usually because the loser is injured and/or dies.  If their mate doesn't return, they do however find a replacement, sometimes more quickly than others.  When the original Radisson female died, Madame replaced her immediately because she overwintered here and was here when the resident male returned.  In Brandon, Holly was paired with Zeus for a number of years - when he didn't appear a couple of years ago, she waited then paired up with Screech and successfully raised a 3-4 young.  The following year Zeus reappeared and Holly immediately returned to him.  Last year Princess wouldn't mate with a male that appeared at the Radisson shortly after she did.  She rebuffed his advances and waited for Trey who turned up a few days later.

On the flip side, there have been a very (very) few rare cases of a male supplying food to two nearby incubating females and it has been assumed that the offspring from both nests were his ... but without DNA there really is no way to be sure. 

The Friesens:
Tracey,

They say that geese have one partner for life, do peregrines also somehow I doubt that with all the confusion of whether it was princess or not.

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