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Cooper:
Just came across this news report of a female peregrine shot in Lincoln.  >:(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-12682039

sami:
Sounds like the justices don't put much importance on endangered species.

The Peregrine Chick:
Rare birds’ egg thief has jail sentence slashed

A FORMER Special Forces soldier from Towcester, who sparked a terrorist alert trying to smuggle £70,000 of rare birds’ eggs out of the UK, has had his sentence almost halved by judges at The Court of Appeal.

Jeffrey Lendrum, aged 48, was caught by police at Birmingham Airport with 14 eggs strapped to his chest, about to board a flight to Dubai, when a cleaner in the Emirates business class lounge grew suspicious over him repeatedly visiting the showers. The falcon eggs, bound for the black market, had been placed in socks before being taped to his body in May last year.

At yesterday’s appeal hearing, Sir Christopher Holland said Lendrum, who once served in the Rhodesian SAS, pilfered the extremely rare eggs from nests in the Welsh mountains, hoping to trade them at lucrative overseas markets in the Middle East.

He had climbed into tree tops to bag the eggs, before abseiling down with his catch, the court heard. When caught by police at the airport, he was trying to examine the condition of the 14 eggs, fearing they may have perished. The appeal judge said the eggs were “happily still in good order” when recovered and 11 later hatched, with the chicks released into the wild.

Lendrum, of York Close, Towcester, who also has an Irish passport, tried to talk his way out of trouble by telling counter-terrorism police they were chicken eggs which he had brought from Waitrose, but he eventually came clean.

He was jailed for 30 months at Wolverhampton Crown Court in August after admitting trying to evade UK customs controls and theft.  But he challenged his sentence, which Sir Christopher, sitting with Lord Justice Moore-Bick and Mrs Justice Cox, agreed was “excessive”, slashing it to 18 months.

There are only 1,400 breeding pairs of peregrine falcons in the UK with the birds regarded as an endangered species.

http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/local/rare_birds_egg_thief_has_jail_sentence_slashed_1_2370428

The Peregrine Chick:
Endangered Peregrine Falcon Shot and Killed Near New Albany (11 Jan 2011)


Peregrine Falcon (not the bird shot)
The Indiana Department of Natural Resources is seeking information involving the shooting and subsequent death of a 16 year old Peregrine Falcon. The bird was bred in captivity, tagged and released to the wild along with 15 other falcons near Evansville in 1994. Why someone would target this bird remains unclear, but migratory bird biologist John Castrale says it could have easily been a mistake.

“There are a number of birds that can be confused with Peregrines, especially Cooper’s Hawks, so my guess is someone was just taking a pop shot at a bird of prey,” said Castrale.  “I don’t think they probably knew it was a Peregrine Falcon”.

In 1989 Indiana saw its first pair of nesting Peregrines in more than five decades. Two years later the Peregrine Falcon Reintroduction Program was started and since, their population in Indiana has risen to 130. The Peregrine Falcon is no longer a federally endangered species but remains on the state endangered species list and intentionally killing or disturbing ones nest could result in serious charges says DNR lieutenant Mark Farmer.

“If someone was apprehended or if enough proper cause was developed where we could file charges then those penalties could be pretty severe,” Farmer said.

Officials say the chances of finding the culprit are slim. Anyone with information on the shooting should call 800- TIP- IDNR or go to TIP.IN.gov

http://indianapublicmedia.org/news/endangered-peregrine-falcon-shot-killed-albany/#


New Albany is just across the river from Lexington, Kentucky.  

As the story mentionned there were 14 birds hack released in 1994 in Evansville.  The article does not identify who the bird is, if it is an Indiana breeding bird or even what gender the bird was.  Now unless I have mis-read something, this looks to be math ...

reported as deceased prior to 2010:
  PF Flyer (f) - died in 2001 due to a collision with a vehicle in Evansville, Indiana
  River Ace (m) - died in 2002 in Cleves, Ohio

no reports since fledging from Evansville in 1994:
  Dedalus (m), Merlin (m), Pajaro Bonita (f), Ranger (m), Rapptor (f), Speedy Gonzalez (m),
  Stealth (m), Thunder (f), Yeager (m)

observed/identified post-fledging prior to 2000:
  Echo (f) - seen in Michigan in 1995, then in Ohio in 1999
  Phoenix (f) - failed nesting in Evansville, Indiana in 1995
  Skyrunner (m) - seen in Evansville, Indiana in 1994

observed/identified post-fledging after 2000:
  Freedom - nesting in Fort Wayne Indiana with Roosevelt since 1995  

If anyone sees any updates in the news, please copy and post here - Thanks!

Alison:
Where are they now?

Injured falcon to become education bird

In the news: In late January a young peregrine falcon -- not often seen here -- was recovering after nearly dying from major injuries. No one can say exactly how it got hurt, though wildlife experts said it might have crashed into a car or other object in a high-speed dive.  Peregrine falcons, endangered for years by the pesticide DDT, once had few nests east of the Mississippi but now migrate through the state on their way to South America.

Dr. Mark Gendzier, a veterinarian from St. Johns Veterinary Clinic, placed pins in the radius of the bird's left wing and repaired the tibiotarsus in its right leg.  The bird was released to wildlife rehabilitator Melanie Stage of H.A.W.K.E., a nonprofit that cares for injured local wildlife.  Stage did not expect the bird to recover enough to be released into the wild.

What the bird's doing now: Stage said it took six months for the bird, whose name is now Kenya, to totally heal from its injuries. Stage can't tell yet whether the young bird is male or female.  The pins were removed from its wing and physical therapy helped get its leg working again.

"The leg had to be fused in a comfortable position because it was too bad to be fixed," she said. Stage said the bird can't fly any more but is in training to be an education bird.

"It wouldn't survive in the wild but it's doing great in captivity," she said. She said the bird, which gets regular meals of quail, can now sit on a glove or a perch and will soon be making the rounds.



http://staugustine.com/news/local-news/2010-12-18/where-are-they-now

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