http://wfla.com/2017/07/15/baby-giraffe-julius-dies-at-maryland-zoo/

Animals don't belong in Zoo's, Circuses, or any other attraction......UNLESS, they are NOT able to survive on their own. Stop going out into the Jungles and capturing these animals for your own wealth!! Look at the Orcas??? Let them be!!! Oh we are so greedy!! 

I don't see how we'll know after release, most are not seen again it seems. Look at Jemison?! BTW, anyone know how Seabreeze is?

Sneak the meetings in early!

[(But can he hunt on his own)????]

Bay Bridge Peregrine Falcon that took a swim in the bay has new jewelry and has been cleared for takeoff. It will be a soft release from its rehab site. Banded with state and federal bands 7/12/17. Building up with extra food for imminent release. (But can he hunt on his own)????

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Band 89/BA would make it a female following 87/BA and 88/BA for Charlotte and Rachel, respectively.

OK 89 BA but she really has not learned to hunt and they are just going to let her go?? Am I wrong?

The others that have been released after rehab have done fine.

Yeah but this one has not been in long enough to know how to catch food!! Just last week they said she wasn't getting it! She's going to want hand outs! She probably should have been put back a day or so after but I guess they were afraid the same thing would happen to her but I highly doubt it. Unless injured, let them go! That's just me!!

Hello, where is everyone?
Nothing over hereNothing over there

[(But can he hunt on his own)????]

Bay Bridge Peregrine Falcon that took a swim in the bay has new jewelry and has been cleared for takeoff. It will be a soft release from its rehab site. Banded with state and federal bands 7/12/17. Building up with extra food for imminent release. (But can he hunt on his own)????

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/19959355_1638003762876593_5000458741899450641_n.jpg?oh=be000fe69a420e86d19e0a8239d2b35c&oe=5A110695 98/AB

Band 89/BA would make it a female following 87/BA and 88/BA for Charlotte and Rachel, respectively.

OK 89 BA but she really has not learned to hunt and they are just going to let her go?? Am I wrong?

[(But can he hunt on his own)????]

Bay Bridge Peregrine Falcon that took a swim in the bay has new jewelry and has been cleared for takeoff. It will be a soft release from its rehab site. Banded with state and federal bands 7/12/17. Building up with extra food for imminent release. (But can he hunt on his own)????

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/19959355_1638003762876593_5000458741899450641_n.jpg?oh=be000fe69a420e86d19e0a8239d2b35c&oe=5A110695 98/AB

So my baby falcons I originally thought to be kestrels are growing up to be merlins instead. Not getting the chestnut brown coloration of kestrels and different facial marking. Bigger by a bit too.,

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Sadly, another one of the peregrine falcon fledglings from this year’s nest at the University of Pittsburgh Cathedral of Learning has died. Female 08/BR Bl/Gr, 1947-07039, was found dead at the Pittsburgh airport on July 9, apparently struck by an airplane. She was banded on May 16 at about 21 days of age by Dan Brauning, and fledged on June 7 or 8. She had just a month of “freedom� before meeting her untimely end.
As you know, the male, 09/AP Bl/Gr, died of a window strike at the SEI building on the Pitt campus on 6/16. That leaves just one surviving fledgling, female 07/BR. At least we hope that she is still alive. Since she fledged a month ago, she could be just about anywhere, but if she is observed again, please let us know.

OMG!!! It's awful to lose 2 from 1 nest! 

(Thinking of Charlotte) 

DC

Great news Carly, thank you. Hard to keep up with these falcons and their lineage!! Sometimes I have to read these things over and over until I finally get who they are!! LOL  

My brother's sister-in-laws brother's fathers son. Like that!! 

Love the foggy shot
beauty and a juvie up there, Beauty left

A little segment before the kids find them!!

Boy, he sure was eye balling that other nestling! 

The last Belwood Lake Osprey chick has been taken by a Great Horned Owl. So many lost this year

  Horrible

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