!!! Miss Fran in Indiana!!!
August 21, 2013 - Kitchener - CTV-Bell Media Tower
Lisa Reh Reports:
MISS FRAN IN INDIANA!!!! Thanks to Marty Jones, Indiana birdwatcher, who captured this picture and shared the story. The Kitchener fledge watchers are celebrating her success today!! This was posted on an Indiana birding Facebook page. It’s amazing this PEFA has traveled this far in her young life already!
“I thought I’d share an interesting story about this juvenile peregrine falcon I photographed last week on August 24th at Goose Pond in Greene County, Indiana. The falcon had legs bands on both legs. The right leg band was all yellow and the all black left leg band read S over 29. With the band information, John Castrale, Non-game Bird Specialist with IDNR was able to help track down the origin of the falcon. It was found that when only 23 days old the bird was banded on May 30, 2013 at Kitchener Ontario (about 30 miles west of Toronto). The bird was determined to be a female and weighed just 866 grams on May 30th and she was one of three chicks in the nest. I calculated that this peregrine falcon flew approximately 552 miles and was only 106 days old when I photographed it on August 21st.”
Posted on August 29, 2013 10:58 pm
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