Everything started idyllic: the Hiking Falcon “Inge” and “Ivica” breeding together in the tower of the Herz-Jez-Jeugenu church in Graz. But a rival penetrated the area and could even have killed “Inge”. “Ivica” is now fighting for the survival of the chicks.
Nature can be brutal. This is known to all those who have followed the walking alcons assigned by the Live Cam in the Herz-Jeugu church in Graz this year. “We noticed very early that something was wrong,” says ornithologist Leander Khil. The birds, especially women “Inge”, were derived. “She always looked out.” One day “Inge” could not come back. “We have never seen her again and assume she is dead – otherwise she would have tried to come back to the chicks.”
Less than 24 hours later was a new, unknown woman in the nest. Khil called the animal “Tavda”. “It may have been a district fight,” says the project initiator.
“Ivica” remained as a single father. Feeding the four chicks was too much for the little man, especially because “Tavda” stole the prey for him and the nestlingen. “In the room it was that no young bird came through – that’s why I decided to intervene and take a chick.” A difficult consideration for Khil, he wants to intervene as little as possible in nature. “Unfortunately, the death of a young bird is normal. That all descendants die, but cannot be the meaning of a kind of protection project.”
Chicks still have an opening
In the end, two chicks were hired by the club for small wild animals for a few days until Khil put them back in the nest on Friday. “You still have a shortage and are smaller than your brothers and sisters, but it works well.” Involved “Tavda” continues to steal food and aa’s. “Actually, Falcons do not eat any stripes. It seems very strange to me, I don’t know exactly what she wants,” says Khil. But it can be very good that “Tavda” and “Ivica” breed together next year. “He would submit to her.”
Source: Krone
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