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Alison:
--- Quote from: The Peregrine Chick on November 18, 2018, 16:39 ---Set your PVRs folks!
Nova - World's Fastest Animal - The Peregrine Falcon
Wednesday, Nov 21 @ 8pm CST
See the world through the eyes of nature’s fastest animal: the peregrine falcon. Though once perilously endangered in the U.S., this spectacular predator is now thriving again in American cities and on every continent but Antarctica. What is the secret to its predatory prowess? To find out, follow a young family of peregrines in urban Chicago as the chicks hatch and learn from their parents to fly and hunt. And join expert falconer Lloyd Buck as he trains a captive peregrine and puts its hunting skills to the test. What’s the secret behind the peregrine falcon’s blistering speed, able to reach nearly 200 mph?
link to Nova website = https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/worlds-fastest-animal/
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That sounds interesting . . . probably will not be available here. I am wondering if the "young family of peregrines in urban Chicago'" refers to Steve and Linda, who raised their chicks on a Chicago apartment balcony from 2015 - 2017. If so, Dacey Arashiba, who used to live there, moved away. Steve and Linda moved elsewhere to another apartment balcony which they had used in the past. They had two chicks this year, who were doing very well until, very close to fledging, both chicks were found dead on the balcony. I strongly suspect that this was not accidental. :'(
The Peregrine Chick:
Set your PVRs folks!
Nova - World's Fastest Animal - The Peregrine Falcon
Wednesday, Nov 21 @ 8pm CST
See the world through the eyes of nature’s fastest animal: the peregrine falcon. Though once perilously endangered in the U.S., this spectacular predator is now thriving again in American cities and on every continent but Antarctica. What is the secret to its predatory prowess? To find out, follow a young family of peregrines in urban Chicago as the chicks hatch and learn from their parents to fly and hunt. And join expert falconer Lloyd Buck as he trains a captive peregrine and puts its hunting skills to the test. What’s the secret behind the peregrine falcon’s blistering speed, able to reach nearly 200 mph?
link to Nova website = https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/worlds-fastest-animal/
Alison:
An interesting article on Greg Septon, who has been the driving force behind the restoration of peregrines in Wisconsin for several decades.
Decades after getting it started, Racine native still guides state's peregrine falcon recovery
Greg Septon, founder of the Wisconsin peregrine falcon recovery project, holds a male peregrine chick at a We Energies plant in Port Washington. The chick was the 1,000th peregrine Septon has banded in Wisconsin over the last 30 years.
(Photo: Paul A. Smith)
https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/2018/11/16/peregrine-falcon-recovery-wisconsin-racine-natives-life-work/1760759002/
Jazzerkins:
That was a great read, TPC! What gorgeous pictures of gorgeous birds.
The Peregrine Chick:
This one I can't put on the Forum, the photos are just too lovely & large, you need to see them on the Nat Geo website!!
Inside a Sheikh's Plan to Protect the World's Fastest Animal
National Geographic - October 2018
Raising and training falcons in captivity can help conserve these beloved symbols of the Arabian Peninsula.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/10/protecting-falcons-worlds-fastest-animal/
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