ON / Toronto - King Street - 2008-15

[carly]

June 1, 2009

Mystery solved! We are happy to share with you the identity of the adult female Peregrine falcon currently raising one healthy chick on the Durant Hotel in Flint, Michigan. Her band was read and confirmed as Black 7 over 5, according to the CPF (Canadian Peregrine Foundation) the University of Michigan Flint has welcomed 'Majesty' to their campus! She was born at the 18 King Street nest site in downtown Toronto in 2002. Her parents were non-other than Ponce-Kingsley and Victoria - Toronto's first nesting peregrines on record in 100 years. Majesty was one of five hatchlings produced that year and all of her siblings have been reported dead over the years. Majesty is the last known living legacy of Ponce-Kingsley and Victoria - Mark Nash from the CPF was very excited to hear that she is doing well and has successfully reared young. Majesty was undetected for seven years, and some people wonder why we band?

Kariann R. Anderson
SE Michigan Peregrine Falcon Coordinator
Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Division

[The Peregrine Chick]

and what about the numbers, are they random, or counting?

They are sequential - the coloured bands are made and distributed throughout the country so there are alot each year and each one has to be unique so that we can identify the individual birds - not in a region but right across the continent, hence the use of letters, numbers, horizontal and vertical digits and various colour schemes.  The FWS (silver) band also has an unique number for each bird (and for every species!) but they aren't readable except in the hand except in very very exceptional cases.

[bcbird]

and what about the numbers, are they random, or counting?

[The Peregrine Chick]

X after the number is female, y after the number is male 

Just so you know, that has nothing to do with the chromosomes, just luck 

What!  Are you kidding?

Nope, just happens that the band numbers were number over X and number over Y.  We have a bunch of over Y and over X bands and its just a case of the current point in the numbering ... neat synchronicity however!

[bcbird]

X after the number is female, y after the number is male 

Just so you know, that has nothing to do with the chromosomes, just luck 

What!  Are you kidding?

[The Peregrine Chick]

X after the number is female, y after the number is male 

Just so you know, that has nothing to do with the chromosomes, just luck 

[Loriann]

http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/joe_warmington/2009/06/03/9657076-sun.html

very cool article in the SUN this morning ! 

[allikat]

Love the name Spec 
Where are all the males 

[eagle63_1999]

X after the number is female, y after the number is male

[bcbird]

Does anyone know, are those numbers on the band indicative of the number of each sex from that location?
That would be 98 females and 34 males.  Or, maybe in the Province?

[birdcamfan]

Spec, how cute is that!

[carly]

From Frank:

We banded 4 Peregrine chicks today. There were 5 eggs,one didnt hatch. Judging from the ages it was egg 4 that didnt hatch. We had

1.Molly 853grams 23 days old 98/x
2.Alpin 603grams 22 days old 32/y
3.Kendall 536grams 24days old 33/y
4.Spec 378grams 15days old 34/y

Spec(Speck) was apptly named as he wasnt much bigger then one!

[carly]

You are right on TPC.  I checked in this morning and the oldest is already wandering down the ledge while 2 of them were laying in front of her under her breast partway and didn't see the thirds so probably under her.  Linda posted a shot and what a difference in size between largest and smallest.  I hope they do ok too.

[The Peregrine Chick]

Well for sure 1 week between eldest and youngest.  Alison may indeed have seen 3. 
 
I know I checked Thursday early morning and there were definitely only 2.  Number one hatched on the 9th, number two on the 12th, number 3 on possibly the 15th given Alisons pics and number 4 could have been yesterday or last night given how tiny he/she is.   So they hatched out across 7 days from eldest to youngest..wow!!

Can't wait to see TPC's reaction!

TPC is going to be interested to see if the youngest makes it ... it will still be wholly dependent on its parents for thermoregulation while the rest will be on their own.  Fledging will also suck for the youngest, particularly if its female - she could be 3 weeks later than her male sibs - hope she has a sister in the bunch to help keep her from trying to follow along too soon!  I would watch very closely folks to see if the parents are up to be able to meet the needs of all their chicks.

[allikat]

So exciting!!