Hunting in pairs

[wings]

does any body know if Perigrins hunt in pairs while feeding youngsters, the reason i ask is that i know that we have a nest about  1 and a half miles from were i life, on the local church, well over the last 3 days i have lost 4 pigeons. and they have been lost in pairs an 03 pigeon and the others are 08 pigeons, some times the youngster disapear for about half and hour or so ranging, they don't seem to come back in dribs and drabs like i thought they would if they had been attacked.

[peterh127]

Thy certainly do hunt in pairs one splits them up and one goes for the kill. They also hunt in pairs when they are teaching thier YBs to kill.It happens over my loft every year.

[Guest MBpigeonguy]

i have seen them in numbers of three,  which sucks, why would you fly a 5 year old bird?

the older he is the less chance he has of getting away from predators.

i dont know anyone who lets birds out older then 3-4 rarly 4

[wings]

i have seen them in numbers of three,  which sucks, why would you fly a 5 year old bird?

the older he is the less chance he has of getting away from predators.

i dont know anyone who lets birds out older then 3-4 rarly 4

Because i don't think it is fair to keep a bird locked up if you can fly it, and to be honest i hadn't had problems with the hawks  thats why i was asking the question, to give me some idea if the birds disapearing in pair may have somthing to do with the perigrines near by, that i have just heard about. if i had known that a falcon was working near by i would have tried to be abit more carefull though i don't know how. i race pigeons and they have to train, if running the gaunlet is part of it then thats the way it will be.

[Merlin]

They constsntly hunt in pairs,except for a short period when she is incubating,and now very shortly they will be hunting as a family,then the real slaughter starts, would imagine the 03 bird has been taken,o8 well its possible they have gone a.w.o.l.

[Guest paulrstokes]

Yes I saw this 2 weeks ago whilst waiting for my birds on a saturday.

 

2 perigrines were chasing a swift, it was almost like a cat with a mouse they were more like playing it rather than going for a kill. 1 perigrine would fly behind whilst the other would fly above and then repeatidly dive at it.

 

I spoke to a birdwatcher and he said they were probably last years young who were not hungry but just thought they would pick on the swift for a while.

[wings]

Its not looking good for them then, well thanks for the replies. hope you all have a good race this weekend.

[DOVEScot]

does any body know if Perigrins hunt in pairs while feeding youngsters, the reason i ask is that i know that we have a nest about  1 and a half miles from were i life, on the local church, well over the last 3 days i have lost 4 pigeons. and they have been lost in pairs an 03 pigeon and the others are 08 pigeons, some times the youngster disapear for about half and hour or so ranging, they don't seem to come back in dribs and drabs like i thought they would if they had been attacked.

 

Only once the young are old enough to be left in the nest by themselves, both will hunt to feed them and then both will train them so you can get a group of five shortly once the young have fledged:(