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PEREGRINE FALCON
Falco peregrinus
June 3, 2009
| Description | : | Ah .. banding day at the Burlington Lift Bridge and the adult Peregrine Falcons (Falco peregrinus) were on high alert as a team from the Canadian Peregrine Foundation and the Ministry of Natural Resources removed their chicks from the nest box. Neither parent was too happy with the human intrusion, and took about an hour to calm down after their chicks had been weighed, measured, banded, named and returned to the box. We're looking forward to some spectacular displays in the coming weeks as the young take to the air. On the left is the adult female, who has been identified as Cirrus, born in Dayton, Ohio, in 2006. The adult male, Sir Adam Beck, on the right, was born in Toronto, also in 2006. The parents are keeping an eye on the nest box, which is out of the frame, down and to the left.
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