<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>We have applied the method of a forming tree-nesting behavior pattern in the chicks of the cliff-nesting Peregrine Falcon. In June 2016 and 2017, in the Southern Ural Mountains and Bugulma-Belebey Upland, we discovered four nests of Peregrine Falcons, which were threatened by destruction due to various anthropogenic and biological factors. For preventing the death of the broods, the chicks were transferred from the occupied nesting niches in the rock cliffs to nesting platforms. On nesting platforms they spent from 3 to 12 days where they were fed by adults regularly. All four broods (9 young) flew out successfully and demonstrated typical behavior for the Peregrines of their age. Adults fed fledglings and taught them to hunt.</p></abstract>

We have applied the method of a forming tree-nesting behavior pattern in the chicks of the cliff-nesting Peregrine Falcon. In June 2016 and 2017, in the Southern Ural Mountains and Bugulma-Belebey Upland, we discovered four nests of Peregrine Falcons, which were threatened by destruction due to various anthropogenic and biological factors. For preventing the death of the broods, the chicks were transferred from the occupied nesting niches in the rock cliffs to nesting platforms. On nesting platforms they spent from 3 to 12 days where they were fed by adults regularly. All four broods (9 young) flew out successfully and demonstrated typical behavior for the Peregrines of their age. Adults fed fledglings and taught them to hunt.

Restoration of the tree-nesting Peregrine Falcon <italic>(Falco peregrinus)</italic> population in the Volga-Ural Region

Laboratory of Conservation Biology “Ecoton”,

Ornis Hungarica

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Restoration of the tree-nesting Peregrine Falcon  population in the Volga-Ural Region

We have applied the method of a forming tree-nesting behavior pattern in the chicks of the cliff-nesting Peregrine Falcon. In June 2016 and 2017, in the...

Restoration of the tree-nesting Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) population in the Volga-Ural Region

Online veröffentlicht: 14. Feb. 2019

Seitenbereich: 254 - 258

Eingereicht: 03. Dez. 2018

Akzeptiert: 21. Dez. 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/orhu-2018-0033

Schlüsselwörter
Peregrine recolonization, Volga-Ural Region, nesting types, imprinting on tree-nesting

© 2018 Alexey Pazhenkov et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Restoration of the tree-nesting Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) population in the Volga-Ural Region

Online veröffentlicht: 14. Feb. 2019

Seitenbereich: 254 - 258

Eingereicht: 03. Dez. 2018

Akzeptiert: 21. Dez. 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/orhu-2018-0033

SchlüsselwörterPeregrine recolonization, Volga-Ural Region, nesting types, imprinting on tree-nesting

© 2018 Alexey Pazhenkov et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Schlüsselwörter
Peregrine recolonization, Volga-Ural Region, nesting types, imprinting on tree-nesting