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A pair of ospreys has quieted a fire alarm in one New Jersey shore town, and that has ruffled some feathers in the fire department. The raptors built a nest inside the siren used by Spring Lake's fire department and first-aid squad. By law, the nest can't be disturbed, because ospreys are listed as a threatened species in New Jersey during their breeding season.
Ospreys are also federally protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. They can get a permit to remove the nest from the US Fish & Wildlife Service.
Best thing for them would be a wildlife rescue facility. If moved to another location in 'the wild' the Osprey may reject the nest, eggs would never hatch. At a facility, the family is in a controlled environment. If the parents reject the nest, off they go, free again. Then the eggs could be incubated and chicks fed by hand.
Best thing for them would be a wildlife rescue facility. If moved to another location in 'the wild' the Osprey may reject the nest, eggs would never hatch. At a facility, the family is in a controlled environment. If the parents reject the nest, off they go, free again. Then the eggs could be incubated and chicks fed by hand.
I was wondering about that. But they'd be creating dependent osprey chicks.
Wildlife facilities have been hand raising birds and with minimal human contact using puppet 'parents' to feed them. They train them to hunt with no direct human contact and the birds are successfully released into the wild.
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