5 January 2024
My Audubon calendar had a wonder for me this morning. Lately is Nationwide Hen Day, a little-known party established in 2002 by way of BornFreeUSA in coordination with the Avian Welfare Coalition. Since each organizations focal point essentially at the smartly being of captive animals and birds, the party has now not received a lot understand within the birding neighborhood. Then again it’s an ideal excuse to rejoice my very own favourite chook.
The peregrine falcon pictured above is the one wild chook I’ve ever been ready to acknowledge and be told as a person. Dorothy arrived on the College of Pittsburgh’s Cathedral of Studying in 2001 at age 2 and had her first a hit nest in 2002, the yr that Nationwide Hen Day used to be established.
As I were given to understand Dorothy I discovered about her species and was hooked on peregrines. She additionally taught me so much about herself and on reflection the original traits of her era, the peregrines that repopulated japanese North The united states.
Dorothy died 8 years in the past and nonetheless is in my center, particularly as nesting season approaches. Right here’s a glance again at what an ideal chook she used to be. By no means captive. At all times wild.