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- From: toby@stein.u.washington.edu (Toby Bradshaw)
- Newsgroups: rec.birds
- Subject: Re: Falconers and rec.birds
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 16:17:50 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- In article <C16MBJ.Fos@boi.hp.com> miken@boi.hp.com (Mike Nickerson) writes:
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- {friendly words for falconers deleted]
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- >The Peregrine Fund is now working with
- >endangered species around the world such as: Harpy Eagle, Bat Falcon,
- ^^^^^^^^^^
- Not endangered, nor even rare in its habitat. Bat Falcons were
- acquired to get some experience with a presumed near-relative of the
- Orange-breasted Falcon. O-b Falcons turn out to be more common
- than once believed, as well. The traditional stakeout for O-b
- Falcon is Temple 4 at Tikal (worth the trip just to be buzzed
- by the falcons while standing atop a Mayan pyramid), but O-b Falcons
- have been found along the Asumacinta River and nesting rather
- frequently in emergent silk-cotton trees in the forest. Because
- silk-cotton trees are difficult to survey without an aircraft,
- O-b Falcons were previously found only on "artificial cliffs" aka
- Mayan ruins and along river bluffs. Both Bat Falcons and O-b Falcons
- are pretty peculiar anatomically, but they have no peers among
- raptors in level flight speed. I have seen both species in the
- wild and as falconry birds, so I have some basis for comparison.
-
-
- >Mauritius Kestrel and Orange-Breasted Falcon. They started with falconry
- >techniques to handle the bird and then developed specialized techinques
- >such as artificial insemination for captive breeding.
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- Toby Bradshaw |
- Department of Biochemistry | Will make genetic linkage maps
- and College of Forest Resources | for food.
- University of Washington, Seattle |
- toby@u.washington.edu |
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