Second hatch for Melbourne…Peregrine Falcons are the New Zealand Bird of the Year

30 September 2025

Good Morning Everyone,

There is excitement rustling around in Bird World with the first hatch at 367 Collins Street in Melbourne. That hatch comes on the heels of New Zealand announcing that its Bird of the Year for 2025 is the Peregrine Falcon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_falcon

https://www.nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/new-zealand-falcon

https://apnews.com/article/karearea-falcon-new-zealand-bird-of-year-5aecbeff8212b18d7bc88962120fb3eb

https://kareareafalcon.org/karearea-falcon-facts

There are more hatches at the 367 Collins Street scrape in the CBD, Melbourne.

There are now two.

SK Hideaways has the second hatch on video! https://youtu.be/eSNAH1mUR1s?

Congratulations! Let’s hope that the other egg hatches soon. They are so cute, those fuzzy little bundles with their pink beaks and feet.

Birds Outside my Window has a growth chart for the Peregrine Falcon chicks.

Peregrine Chicks Week-to-Week Development | Outside My WindowDownload

At Port Lincoln, we are about a fortnight away from hatch. I sure hope those Fish Fairies are gathering fish dinners.

Gimbir is listening to Diamond as she is giving him some ‘direction’ at the Charles Sturt Falcon scrape in Orange.

Scrape activity as per chat: 1 OCT PREY 02.33.28 D in/stashes; 05.09.19 D takes/05.20.40 eats; BONDING 05.20 40, 07:30:57; 09.24.33; 10.05.21

Lady feeding her beautiful sea eaglets at the Olympic Park Eagle nest with their ‘delicious’ juvenile plumage.

The September newsletter of the British Trust for Ornithology has a lot of news items:

Your September newsletterDownload

Thank you so much for being with us today for a quick check on our active nests! Take care. See you soon.

I want to thank our notable contributor, ‘SK Hideaways’ for their video highlighting the second hatch at the Collins Street Scrape, the owners of the streaming cams of the other Australian nests, the New Zealand Government for their post on the Bird of the Year for 2025 and the British Trust for Ornithology for its newsletter. My blog would not be what it is without your input into the world of birding.

Published by maryannsteggles

I went to the UK as a Commonwealth Scholar in 1990 and received my PhD from the University of Leicester in 1993. After three decades of university teaching, I retired to devote my time to the study of raptor behaviour. I am particularly interested in Ospreys and am working on a long term project on third hatch survival and siblicide in these raptors. My blog is a result of a fascination with my local wildlife and the desire to encourage others to love and care for birds! I live on the Canadian Prairies and prior to the pandemic travelled a lot. I am questioning the use of aviation fuel at the moment as we all strive to help our planet. My early research was in politics and art including British public statues exported to Southeast Asia and Vietnam Resistors that contributed much to Canadian ceramics. Books and articles were published on those subjects over a period of 3 decades. Now I am working on books for children so they can learn about the challenges our raptors face.

1 Comment

  1. Linda Kontol says:
    11 thAmerica/Winnipeg-05:0030America/Winnipeg09bAmerica/WinnipegTue, 30 Sep 2025 20:41:22 -0500 2021 at 20:41

    Thank You so much Mary Ann for these updates on all of them! Have a great evening and see you soon.
    Linda

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