Study on peregrine falcons in London - their diet and the impact of human decisions on that

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How COVID lockdowns triggered changes in peregrine falcon diets – and what this means for urban pest control

Lockdown wasn’t good news for London’s peregrine falcons.

theconversation.com

Particularly interested in the discussion of how people are wrapped into the ecology and how the COVID lockdown provided a very interesting new set of data.

 

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Here's an article from my old place of work where 40 Peregrine chicks have been hatched over the last couple of decades. I had a job that often put me within inches of the adults with only a frosted glass window separating us. They used to feed on a ledge 52 metres up and I was amazed to see a stock of food there (dead birds). Often I'd sit and watch as they had breakfast. The frosted glass wasn't too much of a problem for me and I think it broke up my human shape so the birds didn't flinch when I sat down on the inside part of the ledge. Sometimes I'd tap the glass to get their attention. Thy'd look straight at me and still were not alarmed. The other notable thing was the number of pigeon wings (both wings still attached by bone and tendon) but no body strewn across the site.

Torness peregrines return for another successful year

Bird watchers are celebrating another successful year for Torness power station’s visiting peregrine falcons.More than forty chicks have fledged from the nest site at EDF’s East Lothian facility over the past 21 years and this year’s pair are successfully rearing three new chicks.Workers are able to

www.edfenergy.com