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RCF:
The nest is 13-story-high on the MacKay Heating Plant tower at the UB campus.
Looking out from inside.
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: Kinderchick on March 16, 2013, 13:14 ---As well, I don't understand the assertion that "this type of behaviour is unprecedented" among peregrine falcons. Is this not the typical behaviour of a female peregrine falcon protecting her offspring? ???
--- End quote ---
There is aggressive defense and there is aggressive offense. I don't know much about BB but it could be that she was the latter and not the former. Do we know how high her nestsite was above street level? T-Rex was a very aggressive bird but he didn't go after pedestrians - he did go after folks on rooftops but fortunately the site had few visitors to the roof. At the Radisson when there was a lot less equipment on the roof (so early 1990s), the adults used to hit everyone who visited and hotel staff wore hardhats when they had to visit. Nesting 30 storeys about the ground our early Radisson pairs weren't aggressive toward pedestrians, though they did take potshots when workers came out on nearby buildings. If BB's nestsite were higher, it might be that she would have concentrated her "attention" only on the rooftops, but attacking folks at street level is dangerous not only for the pedestrians but also for her - not just pedestrians down at that level, collisions with vehicles would pose a definite risk to her health and by association the health of her chicks.
It would be a tough call to have to make and all I can say is that we haven't had to do something similar yet in Manitoba. Though Jules is coming close and we are having to get very creative ...
Kinderchick:
That does seem a bit extreme, as RCF says. >:( To my understanding, BB was only "aggressive" while attempting to protect her newly hatched chicks. The university supported the installation of a nest-box and it seems that BB has been nesting there with Yankee for a few years now. As well, I don't understand the assertion that "this type of behaviour is unprecedented" among peregrine falcons. Is this not the typical behaviour of a female peregrine falcon protecting her offspring? ???
RCF:
AGGRESSIVE PEREGRINE FALCON :o This seems a little extreme in my opinion. ??? ::) >:(
BUFFALO, NY~2013 (U. of B. & Central Terminal)
State wildlife officials have safely captured BB, a female peregrine falcon that had been nesting in MacKay Tower on the South Campus.
http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/featured-stories.host.html/content/shared/university/news/ub-reporter-articles/stories/2013/falcon_relocation.detail.html
Discussion from Bird Cams around the World
http://www.peregrinefalcon-bcaw.net/viewtopic.php?f=351&t=1390&start=0
http://www.peregrinefalcon-bcaw.net/viewtopic.php?p=228147#p228147
Kinderchick:
Thanks for the information, bcbird & TPC. Interesting... Hopefully, if he/she returns to the newsroom ledge, someone will get a photo of a band, if there is one. :)
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