• The two oldest hawk siblings in Philly have died from window strikes. (Both flew into windows at Moore College.) The third juvenile, Peanut, was found injured on Tuesday next to the Ben Franklin Parkway. Read a story on Philly.com
here.
Update: Peanut is at Schuykill with rehabber Rick Schubert, and is "resting, eating mice and staying quiet; waiting for an x-ray appointment. Sunny has just updated the Hawkwatch blog with more details on all the fledglings. Read it
here.
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Falco tinnunculus (roboticus var.) Click to enlarge.
(Photoillustration by Tablet Magazine) |
• From tragedy to comedy: A kestrel suspected of being Israeli spy by Turkish authorities turns out to be just a bird! Read the story
here.
And another story looks into how “Bird-brained conspiracy theories keep a tenacious foothold in the Arab Middle East, where science lags behind the West.” Read it
here.
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