A young peregrine falcon in Melbourne had a close call after becoming trapped behind a glass balcony screen. With the help of experienced carers, it was rescued and rehabilitated at Healesville Sanctuary, eventually being released back into the wild.
Live-streaming cameras may have been switched off, but the story of Melbourne ’s peregrine falcon s is still captivating birdwatchers after a dramatic skyscraper rescue. A fledgling that hatched at 367 Collins Street in early October left the ledge last month, before becoming trapped behind a glass balcony screen on another skyscraper in the CBD on November 15. Experienced carers responded quickly, rescuing the bird and attempting to release it in the Fitzroy Gardens.
The gardens were far enough away from the Collins Street ledge to avoid things getting ugly in case the adult falcons did not accept the fledgling, Victorian Peregrine Project founder Dr Victor Hurley said. But carers soon realised the little falcon could not fly because of what looked like a soft-tissue injury to its right wing. Melbourne Zoo staff ended up giving the falcon blood tests and X-rays before the bird was moved to Healesville Sanctuary’s raptor rehabilitation centre. The centre contains a 100-metre flight tunnel for birds to build up their strength before they return to the wild. There, the falcon rested, worked on its flight fitness and was given anti-inflammatory medication, before it was released within home range at a park near the Yarra River last week, the sanctuary said. It is not uncommon for juvenile birds to have misadventures, and the falcon will continue forging its way in the wild, no longer needing to return to its parents on the Collins Street ledge.“The team is thrilled this bird is soaring back through our skies and delighting Melburnians again,” Healesville Sanctuary life sciences manager Gerry Ross said. The whereabouts of the other two fledglings that left the ledge are not known, Hurley said, but the adult falcons would stay at Collins Street, having little reason to move elsewhere. “In the northern hemisphere, migrate a lot … and that’s because all the food would do the same thing,” Hurley said
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