Great catch Kitty 

Thanks for the link Donna, I am disgusted with them and have signed the petition.  ???

She looks great, thanks Kris. I wish her luck with the falconer. 

I do too! Dutch Eagle Fan said that they hope to be at DeMortel for S2's release so the report from that should be interesting.  Hope all works out.

I sure as heck pray they plan to release her far from there, she will head home if she remembers it but at least coming in from afar would give her time to see there is another female there and size up her options. 

My hope is that she doesn't remember it and goes on to find a new home.  I know that's not popular opinion but the new female here is pretty tough and younger than she is and I'd hate to see her hurt again after all she's been through.

Not that I know of Donna.  We were concerned she'd make a play for either our site or TR Mom's site given they are both adjoining the site she was displaced from.  But as far as I know she came straight for ours.

She certainly seems happy at our site.  The site she came from had a lot of human activity on the rooftop and she didn't appreciate it very much.  Not that most falcons do but she seemed extra sensitive to human presence.

At our site, in comparison, they very rarely go out on the roof at all so she's quite calm these days.  It's nice to see her so relaxed.  I have to chuckle every time I see her out there dozing on the web cam because I remember Tracy's stories of her but she seems so tame now.. .  When the kids were here she certainly was crazy protective but now she's just enjoying the peace I'm thinking.  She also seems okay - so far - with Jack not being around a lot and sharing him. 

I can't wait until they get the new cam up, it will be great to watch her with babies next year 

No she was never found Donna.  She is not banded so it would be hard to know if she turned up elsewhere.   

OK, maybe I was thinking O'Connor? There was something.

Yes O'Connor displaced Angel after she herself was ousted by Chessie at her site.

That was wonderful Kitty!  I'm so glad they cared enough to help reunite her with her babies.   

No she was never found Donna.  She is not banded so it would be hard to know if she turned up elsewhere.   

I apologize for not having better photos to share at the moment.  I debated whether to do something on the forum about her but then I decided if I did, it would be like saying she's perished and I'd rather believe she got away and is flying around out there somewhere free and happy.   

I have some photos on my old hard drive that I mean to hook up and copy over to this new PC someday and I have some Mark took on my work PC I think...real photos I mean taken with a good camera, which I sadly don't own.

Otherwise all I have are photos I took off the webcam big screen in our lobby back in 2009 when the camera was last active.  YOu can't see her salmon coloring but you can see how dark her hood is.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/carly77/7847326150/#in/photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/carly77/7847324138/#in/photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/carly77/7847322158/#in/photostream

Angel had a lot of salmon color on her breast, she also had the dark hood (like Kendal).  Strong Anatum genes in that girl.  When she was wet, her chest would look almost brown from the ground without bins, yet other times she could look really white!  She was quite a beauty..like your own Beauty.  

  Beautiful tribute, thank you very much.

Anca and Beth over at BCAW just caught Egg #2 being laid!!! 

 

Well that was just too cute kitty!   

SGB shared this article with us over on BCAW!  Absolutely fantastic, a great read and great news for our fellow speices!  A declaration was signed in the presence of Stephen Hawking


Science leaders have reached a critical consensus: Humans are not the only conscious beings; other animals, specifically mammals and birds, are indeed conscious, too.

It may have seemed obvious to you and me that Fluffy and Fido are aware of their own existence and are not simply biological machines. You may also take it for granted, when you stare into the eyes of a chimpanzee, that you’re seeing a self-aware being. And that when the whale you helped to free from being tangled in fishing gear proceeded to swim around the boat giving you high fives, she was saying thank-you. But scientists (especially those who make money through experimenting on captive animals) have been very cautious in coming to this conclusion.

Birds appear to offer, in their behavior, neurophysiology, and neuroanatomy a striking case of parallel evolution of consciousness.  Evidence of near human-like levels of consciousness has been most dramatically observed in African grey parrots. Mammalian and avian emotional networks and cognitive microcircuitries appear to be far more homologous than previously thought. Moreover, certain species of birds have been found to exhibit neural sleep patterns similar to those of mammals, including REM sleep and, as was demonstrated in zebra finches, neurophysiological patterns, previously thought to require a mammalian neocortex. Magpies in particular have been shown to exhibit striking similarities to humans, great apes, dolphins, and elephants in studies of mirror self-recognition.

    â€¦ The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an organism from experiencing affective states. Convergent evidence indicates that non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscious states along with the capacity to exhibit intentional behaviors. Consequently, the weight of evidence indicates that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. Nonhuman animals, including all mammals and birds, and many other creatures, including octopuses, also possess these  neurological substrates.


http://www.earthintransition.org/2012/07/scientists-declare-nonhuman-animals-are-conscious/