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2011
Season
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2010
Least Tern & Snowy Plover Project
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22 - American
Kestrel Invasion |
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I
know it's biology and the kestrels are just doing their job-
that of raising their young during this time of year, but
can someone please tell them to stop taking our least tern
chicks? The observed taking of chicks has been almost constant
for the last few weeks, and since our last note, Wally continues
to set traps for daily. He captured a Cooper's hawk yesterday,
but no American kestrels.
There may be one bright spot to the story observed by Paul
Doyle last night- two kestrels in the Preserve. While one
was sitting on the fence, another hunted, captured a chick,
and gave it to the other. Could this be a recently fledged
kestrel? My hope is that they will be off to hunt elsewhere,
but now they both know about the tern chick food source. Go
find some mice-please.
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David Pryor |
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