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Police search to find falcon chick thieves after raid at the Roaches
The Sentinel - 10 June 2013
THIEVES are suspected of stealing four peregrine falcon chicks from their nest at a beauty spot.
Police and wildlife experts are investigating the disappearance of the young birds of prey from a nesting site at the Roaches, in the Staffordshire Moorlands.
Staffordshire Wildlife Trust (SWT), which had been keeping the nest under observation, believes the chicks were just two weeks away from being able to fly.
Now SWT – which has just taken over the running of the Roaches – is working with Staffordshire Police and the Peak District National Park Authority to find out what happened to the birds.
Read whole story here - http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/Police-search-falcon-chick-thieves/story-19240022-detail/story.html#axzz2VtNLLQxB
RCF:
Question: How do you stop pigeons from pooping all over your roof?
Answer: Build a robot falcon to scare them away!
http://www.dailywhat.org.uk/2013/03/robot-falcon-gets-pigions-in-a-flap.aspx
Interactive Robop diagram
http://www.dailywhat.org.uk/2013/03/robot-falcon-gets-pigions-in-a-flap/interactive-diagram.aspx
Video from 2003 of ROBOP ~ http://youtu.be/PaZFN3P7Dt0
Kinderchick:
Very cool video! 8)
RCF:
Peregrine falcon hunts downhill rider ~ http://youtu.be/jTJYc8O1ocM
RCF:
Davenport, Iowa
On Wednesday, five employees of MidAmerican Energy Co. crowded around a 10th-floor window of the utility's downtown Davenport office building, trying to extricate this year's lone falcon chick while its mother, Scorpio, dive-bombed the nest, squawking and slamming her beak against the window.
Falcon-grabbing is dangerous work http://bit.ly/118xz10
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