Cleveland, Ohio: SW(b/r S/*W ) & Boomer(b/g C/66) 2014, Nieuwe dame hier Newton

C&C's Ohio Peregrine Page heeft 19 nieuwe foto's aan het album A Tribute to SW following the Recovery of her Carcass: toegevoegd.

All that we have been able to do to this point is to speculate about the disappearance of SW from the Terminal Tower nest site over the past two months, but now Harvey Webster, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History (CMNH) falcon cam co-administrator has contributed to our understanding of her demise with the following report:

"As has been surmised by her absence for the last two months, SW is dead. Her mummified body was found on an expanse of roof between the Leader Bldg and the side of the Arcade and brought to my attention by Dyann Davison from the Carlyle Development Group. I retrieved her remains and brought them to the Museum. Given the state of deterioration of the body it will be difficult to ascertain the cause of death. Laurie Graber and Jennifer Norris from ODOW have been notified and will file the band information. Though we might suppose Newton and SW engaged in an epic duel ending with SW's hitting a building and coming to rest on the lone expanse of roof, it is also possible that there was a skirmish with the Bohn Building pair. The Leader Bldg. is very close to the 5th 3rd Building where I recovered Ranger some years back and could be the boundary between these two territories."

For those who have "known" and followed SW's reign at the Terminal Tower for many years, this discovery can't cushion the blow of the loss of her. Yet now we are able to truly share in honoring her by celebrating her life and her important contributions to our understanding of peregrine falcons as a species and as a unique individual. We wanted to share some of our own personal memories of watching SW at her nest site in these pics, as these memories will be with us always...

SW