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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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It was advisable to remove them at night, to keep them calm, to establish immediately a feeding board on which they would be fed chopped beef and egg to start, then fresh birds, rabbit or squirrel. ” By 1970 the man who championed Peregrines had convinced Cornell University to build a Hawk Barn for captive breeding of these birds.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

Each year tens of thousands of these gulls go to the islands and each pair will lay three eggs. Most of these clutches of eggs will hatch to produce three fluffy and adorable chicks. The initial solution in New Zealand was to move species to islands where mammals hadn’t reached. Western Gull chick.

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The man who saved species

10,000 Birds

It worked, and the translocated birds were soon breeding. Today the species is secure on a large number of islands and reserves. The few birds that had been found in the southern Fiorldands had all been males, leading some to fear that the species might be functionally extinct.

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