UW-Milwaukee: Biological Sciences - Peregrine Falcon Information

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Peregrine Falcon 2013 information and webcam

Peregrine Falcons have been present on the UWM campus for several years frequently seen soaring above or perched on several of the high rise buildings on campus. In particular, much activity has been observed on the Engineering & Mathematical Sciences Building. In the fall of 2007, Greg Septon of the Peregrine Falcon Recovery Program, toured the EMS site and encouraged University officials and scientists to build and install a nest box at the site. Plans were drawn up for the box, UWM Physical Plant carpenters and other trades workers constructed and installed the nest box at a site chosen on the roof of the EMS building. Department Biological Sciences faculty and staff provide scientific observation and data reporting. Thomas Hansen from the WATER Institute, Monica Cloutier from UTIS and Thomas Schuck from Biological Sciences helped construct and maintain this web site.

Animal Care and Use Protocol number 11-12 #29

2012 Information and photos
2011 Information and photos
2011 Movie of banding the falcon chicks
2010 Information and photos
2009 Information and photos

5-21-2013 - Chick are not so cute anymore.

Female with chicks watchiong the camera 5-20-2013

5-20-2013 - Female keeping a close watch on the camera.

5-20-2013 - 4 chicks.

5-17-2013 - Female feeding 4 chicks.

5-15-2013 - Ball of feed and sleeping chicks.

5-15-2013 - The 4th egg has hatched!

5-14-2013 - One of 2010 chicks, Curtis(M)(b/r 57/D), has been spotted with a mate, Rahn (F), at the Wacker site in Chicago with 5 eggs.

5-13-2013 - Female feeding three chicks, 4th egg to the left.

3 chicks with egg tooth 5-13-2013 with arrow

5-13-2013 - Three chicks have hatched. The egg tooth, used to break through the egg during hatching, can still be seen on one chick.

5-12-2013 - Second chick.

Second egg hatching image13-05-12_14-57-20-30

5-12-2013 - Second egg can be seen hatching at 3:00PM.

5-12-2013 - First feeding 9:26 AM.

5-12-2013 - First chick hatched this morning (Mother's Day) about 7:20AM.

male incubating female waiting-2-5-11-2013

5-11-2013 - Male incubating while the female waits her turn. Hatching should begin any day now.

Male with 4 eggs image13-05-04_18-46-37-42

5-4-2013 - Male with 4 eggs.

Female with 4 eggs image13-04-20_10-32-43-60

4-20-2013 - Female with 4 eggs.

Male sitting and Female image13-04-19_16-22-32-13

4-19-2013 - Male sitting on the eggs while the female watches.

4-12-2013 - 4th egg was laid ~7:50PM Thursday, 4-11-13.

4-9-2013 - Rain soaked male sitting on 3 eggs.

4-9-2013 - 3rd egg laid 12:15PM 4-9-2013.

4-8-2013 - Male sitting on 2 eggs.

4-7-2013 - 2nd egg laid this morning 7:07AM.

4-5-2013 - Male in the nest box for a look at the egg.

Female sitting image13-04-05_07-34-22-84

4-5-2013 - Female incubating egg.

Female with egg image13-04-05_07-55-23-17

4-5-2013 - Female with egg.

4-5-2013 - The first egg was laid this morning around 2:00AM.

4-4-2013 - The size of the scrape (nest) can easily be seen here outlined in red.

Female sleeping image13-04-03_17-19-19-87

4-3-2013 - The female spent quite a bit of time in the nest box today, some of it sleeping.

3-30-2013 - Female working on scrape (nest).

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3-25-2013 - Male, Hoffman making scrape (nest).

3-21-2013 - Male and female in nest box.

3-04-2013 - First record of unbanded female in nest box.

2-21-2013 - Indy Froona, female, born 2009, in Market Tower, Indianapolis, Marion county, IN. was seen at the UWM site as late as 2-21-2013.

1-24-2013 - Hoffman also spent much of the winter at the UWM site.

12-26-2012 - Indy Froona, female, born 2009, in Market Tower, Indianapolis, Marion county, IN. spent most of the winter in the nest box again this year. There did not seem to be the territorial fight this year that evicted Indy Froona from the UWM site in a previous year.

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