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@cathshiang I wish we had more information to share, but these things take time. The symptoms observed don’t fit with starvation very well. If he had been just emaciated, he would have recovered after returning to care. As soon as we have more info, we will share
Annie has never successfully hatched all four eggs in any year we've monitored her. There's always been an egg that didn't make it. Nox was the exception to that: a tiny little bundle of fluff that hatched out of his egg as hundreds of people watched live on BAMPFA's big screen
@cathshiang I just wanted to quickly respond:until the necropsy results come out, we won’t have a clear idea on what happened and there are a huge number of competing theories. The methods used in Nox’s rehab have been used for thousands of falcons that have successfully returned to the wild
@cathshiang Nox’s wing had a very significant fracture, the kind of injury that could never be recovered from even ten years ago. It’s only through highly advanced care that he was able to be released again. Also, at his age, his parents would not have been providing care
We are deeply saddened to receive the news from UC Davis that Nox passed away last night. They will be performing a post-mortem to determine the cause of death, which is still unknown.
We will be posting an in memoriam later today when we have time to honor Nox properly
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Bay Raptor Rescue, Wildcare, and the UC Davis California Raptor Center. Your excellent care of Little Boy Blue gave us hope at every moment of his journey. Thank you.
Losing him is incredibly difficult, especially with how much work he and his human caretakers put in to return to the wild from his initial injury. We will all always treasure the moments we had with him.
Photos: Cal Falcons + Moon_rabbit_rising
@HashtagBurton The global licensing of media to be used for AI training datasets. The images and videos we post are all owned by UC Berkeley (or the photographers who generously share) - we have no authority to authorize their use for AI or commercial purposes, so that kills our ability to post
Due to the recent changes to Twitter's Terms of Service and the impacts those changes have on intellectual prop., we will be pausing our use of this platform
Look for some really exciting Nox news where the skies are blue, the books are made from faces, and the gram are instant