Interesting --just this week, I learned that 3 cuckoos, 1 yellow-billed, 2 black-billed-- or the other way around, I don't recall--were brought in for treatment of serious, identical, neck wounds that were probably caused by peregrines. They were found in downtown St. Paul, close to a peregrine nest area. Linda Whyte On Jun 10, 2016 3:29 PM, "JULIAN SELLERS" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
