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Amur Falcon / Falco amurensis
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◄ Back
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| Ex.: |
1 |
| Sex: |
Male |
| Age: |
Adult |
| County: |
Tulcea |
| Place : |
Plopul |
| Observer: |
Holmgren Tommy |
| Found: |
Holmgren Tommy |
| Photo by: |
Tommy Holmgren |
| Data: |
29. 05. 2017 |
| Comment: |
I´m a tourleader for Scanbird (Danish-Swedish Bird Travels) and I visited a Red-Footed Falon colony near Plopul, Dobrogea the 27th of May. With us was also an Ibis tour guide; Daniel Petrescu. We stayed in the colony for about 1,5 hour and photograghed the falcons. It was first in the evening at the hotel when I looked at my pictures on my laptop I surprisingly found two pictures of an adult male Amur Falcon!
Two days later on the 29:th of May we visited the Red-Footed Falcon colony again. We found the Amur Falcon after about 15 minutes and we had good views of it. Two times it went down in a nest where a female Red-Footed Falcon lay in the nest. We also noticed that the Amur Falcon had some courtship with the Red-footed female, when he was flying to her with a big bug in it´s bill.
On the 28:th of May one of Daniels guides observed mating between the Amur Falcon and probably the some Red-footed female. |
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12 june 2017 18:59 |
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Szabó József
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2017. june. 13. 12:15:30
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Hi Tommy,
Well, they would have been targeting the adult male imstead of ringing the chicks, which otherwise would have been good (if there will be any hybrids) to receive some kind of markings, colour rings for instance
József
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Holmgren Tommy
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2017. june. 13. 12:04:08
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Hi Szabo!
In fact the gps was already out on the internet, and not by me. I put the observation on facebook the evening I found it, as an Amur in a Red-footed Falcon colony near Plopul. After I spoke with Daniel the morning after (28/5) I changed the location to just Dobrogea.
When I reported it here on your site yesterday I was forced to put in the gps coordinates, it didn\'t work otherwise.
One question: why should ringers be interested in a hybrid nesting?
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Szabó József
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2017. june. 13. 09:52:27
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Hi Tommy, thanks for uploading your incredible observation! Actually you broke the silence that was somehow imposed by Daniel, who was scared that the colony will be invaded by ringers. In the 29th the bird was seen also by Fântână Ciprian, Florin Stavarache and myself. Seems that this was the last day when the bird was seen at the colony. Congratulations once again!
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