The fast falcon

[egp320i]

amazing bird but no nature section here but this ties into they have introduced
many into NYC to control the rat and pigeon population and they
are doing a bag up job.......naturally

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

amazing bird but no nature section here but this ties into they have introduced
many into NYC to control the rat and pigeon population and they
are doing a bag up job.......naturally

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I remember when Seattle had a pair of falcons that nested high up on the building across the street from my hubby's office building, and one of the news channels had a webcam up watching them all the time.

I never thought what useful birds they are, removing plenty of flying rodents and the four footed rodents as well.

Oh! Looks like they've still got it! The one thing about Seattle that hasn't gone to hell!

Seattle - 1201 Third Ave - Peregrine falcon - Washington (USA)

A live view of a peregrine falcon's nest on the roof of a high-rise building at 1201 Third Ave.

worldcam.eu

 

[Anomalism]

Can you imagine having to worry about getting eaten by a bird with higher top speed than a crotch rocket? I'm staying inside.

 

[egp320i]

To add more how cool these really are.......

 

[jacksonlamb]

 

[toobfreak]

I never thought what useful birds they are, removing plenty of flying rodents and the four footed rodents as well.

And isn't that really the beauty of nature? That left alone, it builds a perfectly balanced system with no holes nor vacancies? Every living thing fills some need, taking from one place and giving in another to maintain a perfect clockwork of precision engineering where, left alone, everything thrives in balance, sustaining the whole.

Almost like it was all designed by some supreme, master engineer.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

And isn't that really the beauty of nature? That left alone, it builds a perfectly balanced system with no holes nor vacancies? Every living thing fills some need, taking from one place and giving in another to maintain a perfect clockwork of precision engineering where, left alone, everything thrives in balance, sustaining the whole.

Almost like it was all designed by some supreme, master engineer.

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Master engineer, indeed. It's amazing.

I just learned that jays perform a very valuable function. They can mimic the call of a hawk, as a warning when one is in the vicinity, for the purpose of warning the smaller birds, who then hide.

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[egp320i]

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Master engineer, indeed. It's amazing.

I just learned that jays perform a very valuable function. They can mimic the call of a hawk, as a warning when one is in the vicinity, for the purpose of warning the smaller birds, who then hide.

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nark........squealer.........

 

[toobfreak]

Master engineer, indeed. It's amazing.

Time and again I have seen studies and experiments where people tamper with or remove just a single key plant or animal from a wooded area or a pond, and they find it throws the entire ecological balance off.

Sometimes the loss of a seemingly innocuous plant or animal leads to the increase of another which in turn starts a cascade reaction of all kinds of undesirable and unanticipated effects.

They call them keystone species I believe.

Many ecological problems all over the globe are due to the loss of or changing of a single keystone species in the environment, currently causing some kind of disaster like the eradication of the coral in the reefs.

Some of the culprits:

• Acid rain.
• Pet lion fish.
• Former pet pythons.

Just like the accidental release of Killer Bees in the Americas, pet lion fish got thrown into the ocean are now eradicating other species and pet baby pythons sold to Floridians lost into the wild either released when they got too big or lost into the wild by a hurricane, etc., are now taking over and eradicating other species throughout the Everglades.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Time and again I have seen studies and experiments where people tamper with or remove just a single key plant or animal from a wooded area or a pond, and they find it throws the entire ecological balance off.

Sometimes the loss of a seemingly innocuous plant or animal leads to the increase of another which in turn starts a cascade reaction of all kinds of undesirable and unanticipated effects.

They call them keystone species I believe.

Many ecological problems all over the globe are due to the loss of or changing of a single keystone species in the environment, currently causing some kind of disaster like the eradication of the coral in the reefs.

Some of the culprits:

• Acid rain.
• Pet lion fish.
• Former pet pythons.

Just like the accidental release of Killer Bees in the Americas, pet lion fish got thrown into the ocean are now eradicating other species and pet baby pythons sold to Floridians lost into the wild either released when they got too big or lost into the wild by a hurricane, etc., are now taking over and eradicating other species throughout the Everglades.

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I think it's getting to the crazy point with invasive Canadian Thistle in the area of Western Washington State where I lived. They are nearly impossible to control and the empty lot next to our property had them growing in a thicket of blackberries next to our fence. I talked to the county and learned that property owners can get heavy fines for having them on one's property, yet they never did anything to the owner of the property next to us. They propagate on a puffy seed that blows on any breeze, and I was constantly trying to dig them up in our yard.

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[toobfreak]

I think it's getting to the crazy point with invasive Canadian Thistle in the area of Western Washington State where I lived. They are nearly impossible to control and the empty lot next to our property had them growing in a thicket of blackberries next to our fence.

I've seen them all my life out hiking and stuff, admired them (they're kinda pretty in bloom) but never knew what they were. We've screwed up the ecosystem, all over, sometimes just by simple invasive species like spiders and rats which stowed within fruit or aboard a ship then got dropped off on some remote island.

Half the native species in Hawaii have been wiped out by invasive species like cats, hogs, pigs,, etc., stuff we brought there which the native animals had no defense of.

Hell, we basically eradicated the Mayans or Incas of central America by diseases the Spanish traders and explorers brought over with them.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I've seen them all my life out hiking and stuff, admired them (they're kinda pretty in bloom) but never knew what they were. We've screwed up the ecosystem, all over, sometimes just by simple invasive species like spiders and rats which stowed within fruit or aboard a ship then got dropped off on some remote island.

Half the native species in Hawaii have been wiped out by invasive species like cats, hogs, pigs,, etc., stuff we brought there which the native animals had no defense of.

Hell, we basically eradicated the Mayans or Incas of central America by diseases the Spanish traders and explorers brought over with them.

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Interesting.

And I wonder how many more diseased we will be exposed to, thanks to all the illegal invaders.

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