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http://www.species-at-risk.mb.ca/projects/pfrp/peregrinations/
http://www.cbc.ca/manitoba/features/falcon/index.html
We have been watching the Peregrine Falcons in Winnipeg and have been generating lots of thick questions. We don’t have all the answers to these questions so we have decided to write them down and see if we can start to find the answers.
Thursday evening post your question on the blog. Anytime on Friday or after please feel free to answer your question or a question another student asked. To answer the question leave a comment or reply to the comment where the question was written, so we can keep the questions and answers together. Keep checking the blog for the answers and don’t forget to contact community resources to help you.
Have fun watching the falcons!
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my question was: why are the folcons indangerd???
Where is the Peregrine Falcons natural habitat?
Why are Fulcans so endangered?
When did the fulcan become endangered?
What do the baby falcons eat
How endangerd are they?
When do baby falcons leave thier moms?
What hotel are they nesting on?
How many falcon nests are there in Winnipeg?
Whats the stuff in the plastic box?
why do falcons lay on there babies.
How many spiesys of falcans are there there?
How do the falcans knowto go to the hotel after winter?
Are falcans dangeres?
Where do falcons live in Canada?
How big of a wingspan do falcons have?
How many falcon nests do they have in Winnipeg?
Where do falcons go to hibernate, or do they just stay here?
What year were falcons found, who found them , how and where ?
Where do falcons live.
How much falcons do people think there are?
How much places are thier fro falcons in winnipeg?
Is thare any falkins at fort wiht?
What do fakins eat?
What will they do if it rians hard agen?
When did the falcons eggs start to go missing?
When did falons start to be taped?
Where do falcons go in the winter?
At what age do falcons die at?
When did the falcons start coming to Winnipeg?
what do falcons eat?
Do falcons migrate?
Where is the peregrine falcons normal habitate? What do peregrine falcons eat?
falcons eat mice and feed some to her babies.
baby falcons eat mice and rats.
Falons live all over the world, but most kinds of falcons live in South America and Africa.
To keep their babies warm and protected.
The population of falcons is between 2,000 and 3,000 breeding pairs in Canada, Mexico and the United States.
There are many reasons why peregrines are endangered, most are due to human cause. Many peregrines were shot down in England, because they continually attacked some type of pigeons that carried messages. Some sort of virus or something named DDT killed a lot of falcons.
Some Falcons eat baby rabits! But also insects and other birds
there are 63 species of falcons.
The falcons started to come to Winnipeg in 2006.
Why are falcons endangered?
Falcons are endangered for three reasons:
1. Humans are destroying falcons’ hunting grounds
2. City development has destroyed falcon habitats.
3. Use of the pesticide DDT has resulted in many falcon chicks dying before having a chance to hatch
Peregrine Falcons will eat: sparrows, larks and water fowls. They will eat small rodents to feed to the babies. Their nesting home is usally a high cliff or suitable home would be found in Chicago, Illinois, and St. Louis, Mirrouri where tall buildings have substitutted for cliffs.
They are nesting on the Radisson Hotel.
Why do the faccons come to winnipeg?
Answer for where do falcons live? :falcons somtimes live in the castskill mountians. falcolcons live in most temperate region of the planet. They usully nest on cliffs or gorge faces.
They are endangered because of lost living space and the use of DDT which weakened their egg shells.
Falcons do migrate. by RV001
Do you know what DDT is? Can you explain it?
What about Falcons in Canada and North America? Perhaps you can look up what DDT is.
Peregerine falcons have a wingspan of up to 105-130 cm.
They are nesting on top of the Radison hotal.
What did we see while we were watching the falcons on the video, could you tell what they were eating?
How do you think they get baby rabbits? They must be big, can you find anything on their size?
Are there other nests in Winnipeg?
How long do they do this for? How old are the babies before they go out on their own?
There are 63 diferent typs of falcans in the world.
Which falcons live in North America, Canada or even Manitoba?
Falcons live in mountains, vallys, cliffs, tundra, prarie and in cities like Winnipeg.
Baby falcons are about 44 days of age before they can seperate from their mother.
Why do you suppose they like to live on cliffs or up high like on the top of the hotel here in Winnipeg?
Falcons do migrate
they will probally take there babies and and go up some wear safe.
Falcons became endangered in the 1950s,because of a virus called ddt(Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane)wow what a long word!
Peregrine falcons live until they are about 18 to 20 years old.
Do you know what that means for falcons to be in a breeding pair? How many are in Canada?
they will probally go some wear warm.
Do you know why they started to come to Winnipeg? Who started keeping track?
maybe but probally not.
Do falcons only eat mice? We saw a mom sharing with her babies on the live web cam, what was it like for you to watch that?
I think they started to be taped in 2006 when they found falcon nesting on top of the radesin.
Perigren falcans have a wing spand up to 12 feet.
Why do you think they like high cliffs or large buildings. What does the term ‘nesting home’ mean?
Falcons can live 13 years.
Falcons natural habitat is in an open valley.
The Peregrine falcon goes to Fargo in the winter and then comes back to Winnipeg in March.
Falcons become indangerd in 1978.
paragrin folcons have many natural habitats, such as the tundra, the savanna and large metropolitan areas.
DDT is a pestadaside that was let out by the usa and belgium. Canada was not hit by this pestadaside from the usa.
That is a long word! Is this still a problem for the falcons?
I think that the falcons were eating a rat or a mouse.It was cool to watch the falcons.
Do they stay as a family or do the babies go out on their own?
I think they like to live up high because lot of birds don’t fly very high.
Peragrine falcons eat rats and mice.
They are 5 years old.
The peregrine falcon babies start getting adult feathers in May. 40 days after they hatch is when leave and start flying.
Why do you think they chose there to build their nest?
falcons live in place up like cliffs mountaines. and that is why the pergraines live on the hotel.
What types of falcons can we find in Canada?
Why did the falcons come back after it rained so hard and drowned then last year.
They leave there mom at the age of 5.
Which parts of Canada do you think fit this description (mountains, praries etc.)?
Alot of the falcons live in the catskill mountains.
Yes! There’s this resturant with a falcon nest on it at falcon beach!
where did you find that
i thought that the video of the falcons was really neat because we hardly get to see that in real life/winnipeg
cool
Local scientists started keeping track.
These two answers are very different, can you find a number for the peregrine falcons?
Hmmm, I would like you to look at the reply I left for the second answer to this question. Perhaps we can work together to come up with the same answer.
hunters can kill falcons.
Why not?
Where do you think they’ll take their babies? Did you find any research to support this answer?
The falkens will attak if they are traped or scared.
Read the information posted in the links on this post, maybe one of those sites will tell you for sure?
Where would would a warmer place be? Can you look this up?
That’s interesting, why do you think they go to Fargo?
Sorry, but I don’t now.
Is this longer or shorter than other types of falcons?
Which falcons can live 13 years, there are many different types of falcons.
Where do they migrate?
peragrine falcon live throughout noth america.
The falcons usually eat small birds or even small rodents.
there are5 years old
500 grams 2kg. It depends on what type.
They like high buildings because if they were lower to the ground something could eat the babies when the mother and father went to look for food. They also like cliffs and high buildings because when the babies start to fly they need to swoop down to go faster.
DDT is still killing falcons and insects today.
Falcons come to Winnipeg to be safe and lay there eggs.
The falcons came back because they knew that they wold be safer in Winnipeg.
I think that they chose that spot because it is safer.