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Record 1 1988-06-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Birds
CONT

A hack box is an essential piece of equipment in the plan to re-establish a native Fundy population of Peregrine Falcons. Three-week-old chicks are brought to release sites and are housed and fed on cliff edges, in boxes such as this to simulate life in a peregrine nest.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Oiseaux
OBS

Cage placée sur une corniche ou sur le haut d'une falaise dans laquelle on garde le faucon pèlerin en captivité avant de le relâcher dans la nature.

OBS

Le terme "cage d'élevage" a été tiré du "Rapport du service canadien de la faune 1985/1986 p. 24.

Spanish

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