Oberhausen: bandingday!

When eyases are about 3 weeks old they are banded. And today that was the event for these 3 German Peregrine Eyases. And what an excitement it was! Both the male and teh female where quite agressive as you can see on the pictures. And worried and did not understand where their screaming babies went to. And they must have been making a lot of noise! It took about and hour and then we could see the first one being put back in the box.

The parents did not trust it one little bit and stayed close to their returned babies. Who all three have jewelry on now.

Banding is a universal and indispensable technique for studying the movement, survival and behavior of the peregrine falcon.