A short photo series, as I encountered it.
A young gull waits for its parent. Parent arrives, gull follows behind and calls out for minutes on end. Juvenile gets more aggressive, tries for some food from a familiar source. The end.
Gulls do wean their young but may continue feeding even older juveniles if the begging
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I snapped this on the weekend before national t.v. crews showed up to fuel the celebrity of Swoops the Blackbird. (Click on the image for the larger Flickr version.)

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Swoops, a Brewer’s Blackbird with a nest of young to protect, perches on the awnings overlooking his brood and buzzes pedestrians who venture too close to his
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Since our young Peregrine Falcon chick Hi died in a window collision shortly after fledging, it’s been a dramatic season for Peregrine admirers, watchers, and caretakers in San Francisco.
I’ve been following the tales of joy and woe since the early days of this year’s falcon cam — installed above a nest on the 33rd
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This video compresses days 20 to 32 in the lives of three Peregrine Falcon eyasses (chicks) nesting in the PG&E building in downtown San Francisco. See photos and visual logs of the young San Francisco Peregrines in local photographer Glenn Nevill’s Raptor Galleries. And learn more about the Peregrine Falcon research at the website of
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If you’re a Canada Goose gosling in a public park, don’t count on too much respect. On this day, I stopped by one of my favorite bay-side walking spots and saw before me a flock of goslings. It was an enormous flock of babies interspersed with adults — like a National Geographic image of
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If you tune into UCSC’s Peregrine Nest Cam while the youngsters are stumbling over themselves, it might be tough to connect these awkward chicks to their agile parents — who happen to be the fastest birds in the skies. Peregrine Falcons are also the speediest creatures on the planet. Their stoop (diving) speeds can exceed
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