{"id":484,"date":"2025-05-09T15:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T15:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/?p=484"},"modified":"2025-05-09T15:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T15:26:08","slug":"that-looks-like-the-leg-of-a-female-falcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/2025\/05\/09\/that-looks-like-the-leg-of-a-female-falcon\/","title":{"rendered":"That looks like the leg of a female falcon!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2025\/05\/image001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2025\/05\/image001.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2025\/05\/image001-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2025\/05\/image001-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The youngest peregrine falcon nestling, who hatched on April 28, is now one week old, while its three older siblings are approaching two weeks. With each passing day, these young falcons\u2014called eyases\u2014are growing stronger and more alert under the watchful care of Frida and Mango.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>At this stage, they are still covered in fluffy white down and rely entirely on their parents for warmth and food. They are often observed sleeping but also preening their downy feathers. Their eyesight is improving and they are starting to look around as they explore their nestbox. Feeding time is frequent, with the adults carefully tearing food into small, manageable pieces of prey. We\u2019ve seen them bring in a variety of prey, mostly songbirds, including mourning doves, blue jays and homing pigeons. The larger the young get, the more prey they need, as they tend to eat around half their body weight each day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Looking ahead, biologists are planning to visit the nest on May 19 to carefully band the eyases. Each band placed on a peregrine falcon chick has a unique combination of letters and numbers, kind of like a falcon\u2019s license plate! These bands allow biologists to identify individual birds years later\u2014sometimes from hundreds or even thousands of miles away\u2014just by spotting them and reading the code on their band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The youngest peregrine falcon nestling, who hatched on April 28, is now one week old, while its three older siblings are approaching two weeks. With each passing day, these young falcons\u2014called eyases\u2014are growing stronger and more alert under the watchful care of Frida and Mango. At this stage, they are still covered in fluffy white&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"1970-01-01 00:00:00","action":"","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","browser_timezone_offset":0},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}