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The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: dupre501 on December 04, 2013, 19:14 ---http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/arctic-rain-threatens-baby-peregrine-falcons-1.2450721
An article about Arctic peregrines, and their struggles.
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Glad you posted this Dupre, meant to find it myself :)
The researchers told me a story a few years ago about one year at Rankin Inlet when they had 24 nests and they banded about 60 chicks. Next year they had 24 nests again and one storm (not unlike the 2008 storm or the storm we had this year when our first Radisson chick died) and only one nest with 3 chicks survived. North or south, cliff ledge or nestbox, it's not easy being a peregrine chick ...
dupre501:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/arctic-rain-threatens-baby-peregrine-falcons-1.2450721
An article about Arctic peregrines, and their struggles.
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: Jazzerkins on October 20, 2013, 17:11 ---Wouldn't a better idea be to somehow block off the know sites under the bridge(s) to discourage nesting at all, rather than let the chicks drown if they fall. :'( Maybe chicken wire or something similar?
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I daresay with the "changes" someone will propose that and/or propose changes to nestsites - modified nestboxes or nestbox locations or some such ... don't know much about how the birds use the underside of bridges as nesting areas other than they do look like cliff ledges ... someone will experiment, no one really wants chicks to die if they can find a way to modify the sites to give them a better chance ...
Jazzerkins:
Wouldn't a better idea be to somehow block off the know sites under the bridge(s) to discourage nesting at all, rather than let the chicks drown if they fall. :'( Maybe chicken wire or something similar?
RCF:
Feds: Falcons recovered; no more chick rescues
After decades of scrambling on the underside of California bridges to pluck endangered peregrine falcon chicks from ill-placed nests, inseminating female birds and releasing captive-raised fledglings, wildlife biologists have been so successful in bringing back the powerful raptors that they now threaten Southern California's endangered shorebird breeding sites.
As a result, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says it will no longer permit peregrine chick rescues from Bay Area bridges, a move that they concede will likely lead to fluffy chicks tumbling into the water below and drowning next spring.
http://www.dailydemocrat.com/news/ci_24348854/feds-falcons-recovered-no-more-chick-rescues
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