Perhaps 20 to 30 years ago, one of the leaders of the Twin Cities raptor community (Bud Tordoff, I believe) presented a program about Peregrine Falcons to a downtown St. Paul firm where my wife was employed. He stated that the most common prey species identified at the nest box on the Bremer Building was Yellow-billed Cuckoo. (Who would have guessed?) Maybe the cuckoos you've found were also "peregrine leavings." Julian
> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 09:35:10 -0600 > From: [email protected] > Subject: [mou-net] yellow-billed cuckoo window kill > To: [email protected] > > (Posted by Todd Starich <[email protected]> via moumn.org) > > Two summers ago I found a dead black-billed cuckoo, apparent victim of > hitting a > window, on the north side of Moos Tower on the UMN East Bank. One day last > summer I found another dead black-billed cuckoo, maybe within 15 ft of where > I > had found one the summer before. Today I came across a dead yellow-billed > cuckoo about 30 yards away, by the adjacent PWB. This is not a prominent > window-kill graveyard-- I bike through there every workday of the year, and > it is > rare to see dead birds other than peregrine leavings. So the proportion of > cuckoo > window kill compared to other birds seems exceptionally high. Something that > cuckoos see that other birds in general don't?? > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
