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Names for the chicks
In the two buzzard nests with web cameras we have already been following the doings of the three chicks in each for a couple of weeks. Quite a few viewers  (there are more than 5000 every day) may have wondered if the buzzard chicks will get any names?

Perhaps it is really time now to name them, to make it simpler and clearer to exchange information about them. I suggest that names can be proposed in both nest forums. Although you will have to register and to write in English to post in the forum, it is not very difficult today and if you really don’t feel brave enough to try otherwise there are translating aids on Internet. But most forum members are from non-English language areas, so there is no reason to be shy.

Thus we have two buzzard clutches, and names can be proposed for all six chicks in  them. Preferably the name should reflect some characteristic or look of the chick. For this they must be observed for a longer period or several times, to be sure about who is who.

For the easier naming of Buzzard chicks in both nests there is established special topic of forum by the admin.

It seems that each nest camera has generated its own core observers. They could for instance summarize the results after a week (by 27th), and choose the names from the suggestions. After that the chicks can be called by their names. We don’t know their sex and evidently will not know it either but this is not so vitally important.

 

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Here the chicks are a week older than in the other nest. The adults often bring them rats. In the photo also mother Mari

 

Buzzard camera 2, Katrin and Kalju’s nest
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Parents Kalju and Katrin with their three chicks in the photo, just before a feeding