catwoman wrote:
Matrix wrote:
Interesting about the neurological. I cannot remember if "Pittstop", a falcon i saw in person at the Medina Raptor Center, in Ohio, is a sibling to "Silver" or if she is out of the old Gulf Tower pair, but anyway, "Pittstop" was/is non releaseable due to having seizures. She got to where she would jump down off her perch right before she would have one, therefore minimizing falling. If she IS related to Silver, maybe it is an inherited thing...
Kate St John got to go see her, last year? and wrote about her in Outside My Window blog.
Matrix, that seizures thing is not accurate as far as Silver is concerned. That rumor started because somebody thought that when he was kicking his legs to get off his back, he was having a seizure!
To make it even cuter, since Dorothy would stand beside him & try to push him onto his side in order to help him up, the "seizure" people were saying that Dorothy was holding him down when he had a seizure!
To those of us on this forum who watched a good bit of time, especially when he was on his back, we knew that wasn't the case.
I'm just glad that it looks like Mother Nature is taking care of the feather issue. This is one of the few instances where I'm glad that humans intervened & got him out of the nest because if he'd been left in the nest, he would have just kept trying to fly & not succeeding.How about I put it this way...
neurological problems could be inherited. Seizures are neurological in origin. I DIDN'T say that SILVER had seizures. I said PITTSTOP has seizures and the neurological conditions could be related to something inherited...... IF the two separate peregrines are related (siblings).
