!!! Some sad news to report, from Bogota South America no less!!!
March 09, 2015 - Etobicoke - William Osler
CPF Postmaster Reports:
March 5th - 2015
We have just received some interesting although sad news from Mark Heaton from the MNRF - (Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry,,, OMNR’s new name) with regards to one of the William Osler juveniles that was produced last season in 2014.
It has been reported to him from wildlife officials in Colombia South America that a juvenile peregrine falcon banded with a solid Black band Y over 6, dawning a silver USWF band number of 1156-06858 had been found dead 1.1 miles from Barrio Boyacá, District Capital of Colombia, Bogota - (in South America).
Based on the actual report, it was a collision death - flying into a wire.
After checking the banding database, the black banded peregrine banded with the Y over 06 band was named “Ace”,, identified and sexed as a male, banded on June 11th, being 23 days old and weighing in at 680 grams.
The question has often been asked, where do all f the young fledgling peregrine falcons go and what happens to them? Well, this answers one of those questions,, (combined this band return with 7 years of data as a result of the CPF satellite tracking program where we satellite tracked first year peregrines from Quebec and Ontario), and with the combined accumulated band return reports such as this one, we have a partial answer as to where some of our Canadian peregrines are going to winter over during the winter months.
We found a large percentage of the Ontario and Quebec Canadian produced peregrines that were tracked via satellite in our tracking program ended up wintering over in Colombia, Venezuela and Argentina in South America, in addition to many that wintered over in Central America countries - (Nicaragua and Costa Rica),,,, and never to forget little “Lightning” from the Richmond Hill CPF hack site and all of the fuss he caused everyone with Global, National and local news media headlines while wintering over in the Dominican Republic!!!!!!
Always a huge thank you to the Canadian Ambassador of the time who was stationed in the DR and the local DR news paper - (the Ultima Hora who posted front page full colour photos and block buster story and headlines of little Lightning in three separate issues of their newspaper,, (never in the newspaper history had they every printed full colour front page photos and story of anything before this),,, and local TV station that did a special show, - aired country wide in the DR that also contributed and helped save little Lightning’s life while he was wintering over in the Dominican Republic.
Little Lightning did survive his ordeal with the DR government who had originally planned to “dispatch him” and did in fact return safely (by his own accord) back to Ontario the following spring. A story that we will never forget!
