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- From: tony@zoo.toronto.edu (Anthony L. Lang)
- Subject: Re: hacking Bald Eagles
- Message-ID: <C17oJ8.7oJ@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:01:53 GMT
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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- >In article <1993Jan19.221325.5572@watson.ibm.com>, andrewt@watson.ibm.com (Andrew Taylor) writes:
- >> In article <1993Jan19.185424.12429@lehi3b15.CSEE.Lehigh.EDU> carmanr@lafcol.lafayette.edu (Carman Robert (picro)) writes:
- >> >but the same methods have since been used to restore
- >> >birds of no interest to falconers, including ospreys, bald eagles,
- >> >California condors, and the Mauritius kestrel.
- >>
- >> Was captive breeding used for Ospreys? (or are you refering to something else)
- >> How relevant was falconery knowledge to the California Condor program?
- >> Falconers don't keep New World Vultures do they?
- >>
- >> Andrew Taylor
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- In article: <1993Jan20.214831.12514@lehi3b15.CSEE.Lehigh.EDU>
- carmanr@lafcol.lafayette.edu (Carman Robert (picro)) replies:
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- >My reference there was not to captive breeding but to hacking methods used to
- >return young ospreys, eagles, and condors to the wild. The peregrine program
- >used techniques that essentially reversed those used by falconers with young
- >falcons (eyas birds in their jargon) taken from the nest before they can fly
- >or hunt on their own. The methods used to hack captive-bred peregrines back
- >to the wild have also been applied to other raptors. I am unaware of any
- >captive breeding programs for ospreys, but in these parts the hacking technique
- >have been used with young birds hatched from eggs secured in areas where the
- >species is not threatened. I think most eagles hacked in the Northeast have
- >likewise come from eggs removed from nests elsewhere. In totting up the credits
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- Those eggs and eaglets came from British Columbia and
- Saskatchewan to be exact. The provincial wildlife people
- in B.C. were almost prevented from taking eaglets for this
- purpose once by animal rights activists who had camped out under the
- nest. Luckily, the biologists had anticipated this and had
- staked out other nests to get birds from. So much for
- for trying to educate the public about wildlife restoration.
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- Anthony Lang
- Dept. of Zoology,
- University of Toronto
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