Falcon Gestational Period

How Falcon Gestational Period?

- The eggs are incubated 29-33 days mainly by the female. Sometimes the male incubate the eggs during the day but the female always incubate the eggs during night
-          Normally they have 3 to 4 eggs but it can vary from 1 to 5 eggs. The average number of the young one found in the nest is 2.5 while the number that fledge is about 1.5. This may because the occasional production of infertile eggs and various natural losses of nesting
-          The offspring remain dependent on their parents up to two months.
-          Female falcon can choose when to fertilize their eggs. They can store the female sperm and start fertilize it when they found the safe nest
-          The falcon normally nest in a scrape.
-          The date of egg laying varies according to the locality, generally February to March on the Northern Hemisphere while July to August on the Southern Hemisphere