Peregrine Falcon Chicks Banded at Mill Creek Station
Friday, April 26, 2013
Since late March, more than 24,000 viewers from 52 countries have watched Kentucky’s first peregrine falcon web camera while the falcon chicks hatched and grew from inside the falcon nest box at our Mill Creek Generating Station.
Today, the good folks with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources briefly removed the four chicks from the nest and banded them.
The unique color bands allow biologists to identify individual falcons and track their success. The leg bands have different colors and number codes, which are inputted into a database along with the bird's gender, date of hatching and nesting place. This database is available for all departments of fish and wildlife in North America as a way to track the falcons.
Check out the photos and video below of the big day, and stay tuned to the falcon cam in the coming days as our young chicks take flight!
Today, the good folks with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources briefly removed the four chicks from the nest and banded them.
The unique color bands allow biologists to identify individual falcons and track their success. The leg bands have different colors and number codes, which are inputted into a database along with the bird's gender, date of hatching and nesting place. This database is available for all departments of fish and wildlife in North America as a way to track the falcons.
Check out the photos and video below of the big day, and stay tuned to the falcon cam in the coming days as our young chicks take flight!
