Patti Barber, Endangered Bird Specialist with PGC, leads the team in bringing the peregrine falcon nestlings in from the 15th floor ledge of the Rachel Carson State Office Building. Barber weighs them, inspects their health, and puts light metal bands around their legs for identification. This year there are five nestlings that will be banded. Photo courtesy of Pa.
The falcon chicks are about 30 days old, and nest on a ledge that’s just four feet wide and about 20 feet long on the 15th floor of the building. Nearly 90 young falcons have occupied the ledge since 2002, making it Pennsylvania’s most productive site for peregrine falcon reproduction, a situation that would have shocked environmentalists 30 years ago.
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