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The Peregrine Chick:
Pere­grine Fal­con found on City Bal­cony
Anna Mar­grét Björns­son /MBL / 13 Oct 2014

A fam­ily in west-cen­tral Reyk­javík found a sur­prise vis­i­tor on their bal­cony on Thurs­day. Their guest was of the winged kind, a pere­grine fal­con who stayed on the bal­cony for the whole night. "He was hud­dled up on the bal­cony and we thought he would fly away but he was still there in the morn­ing, poor thing," said fa­ther Trausti Þorgeirs­son.

In an in­ter­view with mbl.is news, Þorgeirs­son said that it seemed that the fal­con had been knocked out ei­ther by fly­ing into the win­dow or onto the bal­cony rail­ing. "It looked like he was try­ing to fly away but could­n't take off." The bird hud­dled in­stead by the bal­cony door and stayed there un­til the fol­low­ing day, when Þorgeirs­son called the po­lice.

 
Peregrine falcon on a balcony in west central Reykjavik. Photo/​Trausti Þorgeirs­son

Nei­ther he or the po­lice of­fi­cers who ar­rived dared to go out on the bal­cony to cap­ture the fal­con. "The po­lice force has no train­ing in how to cap­ture a fal­con on a bal­cony.

In­stead, they got an ex­pe­ri­enced fal­con han­dler from closeby Melaskóli el­e­men­tary school who ar­rived armed with a spe­cialised glove," said Þorgeirs­son. "But when the guy tried to get close to the bird, he flew up on the bal­cony railng and then flew off into the world, prob­a­bly with an in­jured leg."

Þorgeirs­son added that the spar­rows in the area had re­acted strongly to the fal­con's pres­ence when he flew away, fly­ing to­wards him and fol­low­ing him some dis­tance.

Last month two pere­grine fal­cons were spot­ted in the south penin­sula, one of them a young bird and the other one older. Ac­cord­ing to or­nithol­o­gist Jóhann Óli Hilmars­son it is quite pos­si­ble that the bal­cony fal­con was the younger bird. The pere­grine fal­con is some­what smaller than the Ice­landic fal­con. The species nests in all con­ti­nents ex­cept for the Antarc­tic and is a rare sight in Ice­land.

Source:  http://www.mbl.is/english/news/2014/10/13/peregrine_falcon_found_on_city_balcony/

The Peregrine Chick:

--- Quote from: Kinderchick on June 11, 2014, 22:00 ---That is very sad news about Madame X being shot. But wonderful news that she is learning to fly again & with determination, may actually be released into the wild before too long. Amazing. :D

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Note about peregrines getting shot ... peregrines have a bad habit of chasing crows and they are dark and crow-sized and unless you can tell the difference in flight (most folks can't), they are often mistaken for just one of a murder of crows.  And folks like to shoot at crows and while many more crows have been shot, peregrines mistaken for crows have been as well.  I'm not saying this is what happened to Madame X or that it is okay to shoot peregrines or heck shoot crows, I thought I would share a piece of peregrine trivia ...

Kinderchick:
That is very sad news about Madame X being shot. But wonderful news that she is learning to fly again & with determination, may actually be released into the wild before too long. Amazing. :D

RCF:
Endangered falcon shot in West Allis, Wisconsin
Mar 11, 2014
Someone opened fire with a shotgun on this beautiful bird. The x-ray shows her body full of pellets, and it's particularly troubling.  Peregrine falcons are an endangered species, and Madame X is a mom, expected to mate again this spring.

http://www.jrn.com/tmj4/news/Endangered-falcon-shot-in-West-Allis-249645131.html




UPDATE June 11 2014

Endangered peregrine falcon shot in March learns to fly again

WEST ALLIS -- Madame X, an endangered peregrine falcon shot in March, is learning to fly again.

"When she first came to us with multiple shot gun pellets in her body, her prognosis for release was guarded," said Scott Diehl with the Wisconsin Humane Society.

http://www.620wtmj.com/news/local/Endangered-peregrine-falcon-shot-in-March-learns-to-fly-again-262705721.html

The Peregrine Chick:

--- Quote from: Kinderchick on June 11, 2014, 16:53 ---This is, indeed, very strange, but also very interesting - peregrine falcons raising herring gulls. Do you think what they mean by "the outcome is not likely to be a good one for the young" could mean that after they fledge & become self sufficient, they could then become prey for the peregrine falcons? ???

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