Learning about the Orange Breasted Falcon Project!

You have to watch this video of these beautiful birds !!

I'm in Love with these falcons and the whole effort to FREEEEE them...help create their abundance in the wild once again. It's not clear why their numbers have decreased, but it appears these birds are rather isolated in Belize.. from the larger population in the rest of South America... it's too far for them to intermingle.. so.. likely in-breeding is having an effect on the ability for them to re-populate on a healthy/survival level. But deforestation could have possibly had an effect... by diminishing their prey. Since there is suitable habit here in Belize it makes sense to repopulate them.. to fill in the gaps... yay!!!

Me and Carole are sharing time with a beautiful girl, Camille, who (is a super Yogini in class) is part of the Orange Breasted Falcon Project... and we're learning so much!!

Another factoid: the male does all the hunting for the entire family... he does this while the female incubates the eggs.. then once they hatch he has to feed the entire family, plus himself. They are apparently AMAZING very, protective parents too. One mama pecked tirelessly at one of the project workers who was trying to 'band' some of the chicks to track them. Funny.

These are an amazing and RARE species to see. They are so graceful to watch. So far the project is successful.

It's a 21-year effort to effectively propagate rare Orange-breasted Falcons in captivity. They are just now releasing more chicks to the wild (of captive-bred birds) They started the releases in Belize in 2007. These falcons are the foundation for an experimental population that will allow the study of what may be limiting the falcon’s distribution and abundance. Thanks to Yeray Seminario who captured these videos and photos. Do spread the word of their works.