About Nesting of the Peregrine Falcon on the Water Tower in the Altai Kray, Russia

On 19th of June, 2016 a Peregrine Falcon nestling was found among dwelling houses in Biysk’s neighborhood, reported to us by a local resident E. Shitikova. According to her, the nestling jumped out of the nest on water tower because workers disturbed him. We could examine the tower to find the nest...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Raptors Conservation
Main Authors: Sergey V. Vazhov, Roman F. Bachtin
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Russian
Published: LLC Sibecocenter 2017
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.19074/1814-8654-2017-34-93-95
https://doaj.org/article/d37711adfd264589bff380d7d44dea34
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Summary:On 19th of June, 2016 a Peregrine Falcon nestling was found among dwelling houses in Biysk’s neighborhood, reported to us by a local resident E. Shitikova. According to her, the nestling jumped out of the nest on water tower because workers disturbed him. We could examine the tower to find the nest on the 6th of July. The falcons’ nest was found on a partially covered by grass concrete platform on the top of the tower.