Capitol Peregrines banded – “Name-the-chick” contest coming soon
Today (Friday, 25 May) at 10:00 a.m., a team of us banded the two Peregrine Falcon chicks at the Capitol. The team comprised of myself, Lauren Dinan from NGPC and Betsy and Doug Finch from Raptor Recovery Nebraska (huge thanks to Raptor Recovery this week!!). Also critical to the operation was Brett Daugherty and other members from the Office of the Capitol Commission. I don’t have much time to prattle on about things, but the eyases are both males. We will have the “Name-the-chicks” contest again this year and that should be up and running right after the holiday weekend. Until then, below a video and some photos showing some of today’s highlights. Photos were taken by Scott Taylor (NGPC’s Wildlife Division) and Doug Carroll (NEBRASKAland Magazine). Video was shot by Naomi Alhadeff (NGPC Wildlife). The Lincoln Journal Star also has some pictures online, now. The link is http://tinyurl.com/6omhmut
Love the video! They are so cute at this age! And bigger then they look in the nest box
Mama and Papa were both looking cool too!
I was surprised by the relative size of the eyases. I think the nest cam tends to make them look HUGE! Looking forward to the chick naming contest!!
All I can say is WOW!! And I missed it, Darn it!!!
I am so loving getting to see all this nature like you are there and the one helping..
To everyone GOOD JOB!!
Great job everyone!
Donna:
Just so you know, we do not open this event up to the public because of limited space. Perhaps next year we will have to have a clever contest where the prize is an invite to the banding?
-Joel
So it wasn’t streamed live…Whewwww…I feel better…..
Like I said before getting to watch this has been awesome the falcons on the Missouri Dept. of Conservation site were already big and are in a nesting box and there are 6 chicks so you can’t see much.
Your camera angles are great.
I think a contest sounds great maybe a class of school kids who watch it at school could get to come.
The eyases seem to like the attention of being rock stars! :} Exciting time for them, and for all of us!
What happened to the 2 unhatched eggs? Were they still there and collected when you did the banding? Wondering if they were unfertilized. Thanks.
I collected them and deposited one at the State Museum and the other will be used for education by NGPC. They were infertile.