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Offline bcbird

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Re: News: Peregrines / 2013
« Reply #106 on: January 28, 2013, 11:35 »
The type in BC is nonmigratory and apparently a bit different in appearance and size from those in most of the rest of Canada. 


From Wickipedia: 
Falco peregrinus pealei, described by Ridgway in 1873, is also known as Peale's Falcon, and includes rudolfi.[36] It is found in the Pacific Northwest of North America, northwards from the Puget Sound along the British Columbia coast (including the Queen Charlotte Islands), along the Gulf of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands to the far eastern Bering Sea coast of Russia,[36] and may also occur on the Kuril Islands and the coasts of Kamchatka. It is non-migratory. It is the largest subspecies, and it looks like an oversized and darker tundrius or like a strongly barred and large anatum. The bill is very wide.[37] Juveniles occasionally have pale crowns. Males weigh 700 to 1,000 grams (1.5–2.2 lb), while females weigh 1,000 to 1,500 grams (2.2–3.3 lb).[26]


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News: Peregrines / 2013
« Reply #105 on: January 24, 2013, 06:33 »
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Re: News: Peregrines / 2012
« Reply #104 on: November 10, 2012, 07:20 »
Endangered peregrine falcon rescued from plant 

OAK CREEK — Eclipse, a 3-year-old peregrine falcon, was in trouble.

The bird had found its way into a water treatment building at the WE Energies Oak Creek Power Plant. Perched in the building's rafters, the bird had shown no inclination to fly down and out open doors.


http://www.htrnews.com/viewart/20121108/WOF08/121108020/-Endangered-peregrine-falcon-rescued-from-plant

From Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Bird in hand leads falcon to safety http://tinyurl.com/au85fx9


 photo by G. A. Septon

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Re: News: Peregrines / 2012
« Reply #103 on: October 15, 2012, 01:58 »
My husband found this today - though I can't get the video, the pictures still tell the story.

Some UK and US videos are not licensed to be played in Canada - sucks actually - same thing happens with Nature on PBS.
Thanks for posting this despite the unavailability of the video the still photos are quite amazing!

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Re: News: Peregrines / 2012
« Reply #102 on: October 15, 2012, 00:53 »
My husband found this today - though I can't get the video, the pictures still tell the story.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2217357/Amazing-video-captures-falcons-200MPH-feeding-frenzy-shape-shifting-starlings-skies-Rome.html

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Re: News: Peregrines / 2012
« Reply #101 on: August 08, 2012, 10:01 »
Would this pair be of the nonmigrating subspecies, TPC? 
They didn't seem different in appearance to the Anatum, though I'm not certain what different features distinguish the two.

No, they are anatum and migrators, they may not migrate as far as our birds do given their geographic location, but they do migrate to the same places.  Individual birds may not migrate (think of all the birds in the NE USA who don't migrate these days) and individual populations, like the California anatums may not migrate far, but its in their DNA.

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Re: News: Peregrines / 2012
« Reply #100 on: August 07, 2012, 14:07 »
Would this pair be of the nonmigrating subspecies, TPC? 
They didn't seem different in appearance to the Anatum, though I'm not certain what different features distinguish the two.

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Re: News: Peregrines / 2012
« Reply #99 on: August 07, 2012, 10:30 »
Interesting little piece and nice photos about a pair on the cliffs in California

A pair of peregrines and their nest on the beach

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Re: News: Peregrines / 2012
« Reply #98 on: July 26, 2012, 14:26 »
Glasgow's 'first' Peregrine chick raised in Red Road flats

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-18988842

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Re: News: Peregrines / 2012
« Reply #97 on: June 28, 2012, 20:24 »
This was posted this morning on CBC

Brandon falcon chicks to get leg bands  Winnipeg chicks get names from online voting

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2012/06/28/mb-falcon-chicks-leg-band-brandon-winnipeg.html

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Re: Looking for I.D. on falcon seen in Indiana
« Reply #96 on: June 27, 2012, 17:12 »
This female is still around Terre Haute ... in 2012 she was paired with a Wisconsin male (neither of them have names so far as I can tell) and they produced 3 chicks - Sycamore, State and Rex.  Nice to see she is passing along her very pretty genes!

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Re: News: Peregrines / 2012
« Reply #95 on: May 11, 2012, 14:39 »
Well I don't know, we live in strange times. Birds adapt. I suspect it was a big seagull of some sort and it seems seagulls have learned to eat just about anything. Certainly I've seen sea gulls flying over the tallest of buildings in Winnipeg.

But, I wouldn't dismiss Mr. Marks' claim out of hand. He saw what he saw. He said he "thought" it was a peregrine falcon, not he "knew" it was. And I'd suggest, given that the bird subsequently brought its own prey to the balcony to eat, it may well have done so many times before. Who knows, perhaps it has or has had a cache there, in which case I'd think a raw pork chop might be indistinguishable from any other dead meat.

Well put Cooper.

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Re: News: Peregrines / 2012
« Reply #94 on: May 11, 2012, 14:16 »
Well I don't know, we live in strange times. Birds adapt. I suspect it was a big seagull of some sort and it seems seagulls have learned to eat just about anything. Certainly I've seen sea gulls flying over the tallest of buildings in Winnipeg.

But, I wouldn't dismiss Mr. Marks' claim out of hand. He saw what he saw. He said he "thought" it was a peregrine falcon, not he "knew" it was. And I'd suggest, given that the bird subsequently brought its own prey to the balcony to eat, it may well have done so many times before. Who knows, perhaps it has or has had a cache there, in which case I'd think a raw pork chop might be indistinguishable from any other dead meat.

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Re: News: Peregrines / 2012
« Reply #93 on: May 11, 2012, 12:53 »
Maybe to much sauce, and I am not talking about BBQ sauce. ::)
LOL! You could be right about that, rcf. ;)

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Re: News: Peregrines / 2012
« Reply #92 on: May 11, 2012, 10:37 »
I cannot imagine what this guy saw.  What bird with a 4-foot wingspan would land on a balcony in the city and eat a porkchop?  Methinks that this guy is a bit of a joker.

Maybe to much sauce, and I am not talking about BBQ sauce. ::)