Banding of Falcon Chicks Slated for May 19
Naturalists from the Ohio Division of Wildlife have scheduled the banding of the 2011 UT peregrine falcon chicks for 2 p.m. Thursday, May 19.
The free, public event will take place in Centennial Mall near the base of University Hall Tower, where tables will be set up. Rain or high winds could postpone the event.
Officials confirmed last week that UT’s resident peregrines, Belle and Allen, are the parents of four chicks this year.
Ohio wildlife crews will bring the baby birds down from their top-of-the-tower nest and give each one a leg identification band so that it can be tracked after it migrates from its birthplace. Blood also will be drawn from the chicks and they’re weighed to help determine their overall health.
This is the fifth successful brood for the adult peregrines since the division installed a nesting platform on the tower in 2007.
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