Falco Peregrinus, Slechtvalken: Heidelberg: feeding the eyases

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Heidelberg: feeding the eyases

Last year it was noticed as well, and now the male behaves in the same peculiar way. When he brings in food he starts to feed the female and not the eyases. This male is a new partner of Aurora. Last year her partner Fritz sis not return in the spring. This new male started courting Aurora and she accepted him. He was still partly in his juvenile plumage, so he is very young.
Feeding the female is bonding behaviour, part of courtship. This behaviour of Phönix is pleasing his partner, bonding with her, showing her this bond is important. Now Aurora takes the food from him and feeds the eyases with what he offers her.
We are very far from understanding the behaviour of this so very special creature: the peregrine falcon we all love so dearly.

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Splendor

" We need another, and a wiser, perhaps a more mystical,
concept of animals.
Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice,
man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge
and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion.

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We patronize them for their incompleteness,
for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves.
And therein we err, and greatly err.
For the animal shall not be measured by man.
*
In a world older and more complete than ours
they move finished and complete,
gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained,
living by voices we shall never hear.
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They are not brethren.
They are not underlings.
They are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time,
fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.”
*
Henry Beston