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UND Tower - 2017 / Marv & Terminator

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Alison:
However, I found another site with some great photos of the UND banding:

http://www.unheralded.fish/2017/06/13/russ-hons-photo-gallery-peregrine-posturing/

Alison:
I cannot access the link posted above in your June 14 post, TPC. I get this instead:

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The owner of www.grandforksherald.com has configured their website improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not connected to this website.

The Peregrine Chick:
Make sure to check out the link at the bottom, there is video!


Peregrine banding draws a crowd
By Brad Dokken on Jun 12, 2017 at 5:09 p.m.



It was a falcon frenzy Monday afternoon as an estimated 150 people showed up to watch peregrine chicks being banded below the UND water tower.

Between the three chicks, who loudly voiced their displeasure at being removed from their nest box high atop the tower, and more than 60 kids from various Grand Forks YMCA programs who came to watch, this year's banding effort was even more boisterous than usual.

"They're just absolutely loving it—it's very exciting," Sam Olson, a counselor for the Y's Adventure Camp, said of the kids who watched the banding.

Peregrine parents Terminator and Marv weren't exactly quiet, either, as they circled above the throng until the banding was finished and the chicks were returned to the nest box.

As he's done every year since 2008, when peregrines first nested in Grand Forks, licensed bander and raptor expert Tim Driscoll banded the three chicks. Assisting him was Erika Kolbow, an interpreter at Turtle River State Park.

"I couldn't hear anything," Driscoll said. "We had to do sign language back and forth, but it's OK."

Seeing the peregrine chicks might spark one of the kids to be the next great scientist, nature writer, wildlife person, game warden or biology professor or conservationist, Driscoll said.

"Every one of (the kids) wanted to touch the birds, see the birds," he said.

Driscoll, who names the peregrine chicks because it's easier to remember a name than a band number, named this year's chicks Chan, for Chandler Robbins, an influential American ornithologist who died in March at age 98; Julie, in honor of Julie LeFever, longtime director of North Dakota's geological core library at UND who died in December; and Carl, after Carl Barrentine, an associate professor emeritus of humanities and integrated studies at UND.

This year's chicks were the 29th Driscoll has banded in Grand Forks. Terminator has hatched every chick, while this is Marv's third year as a local peregrine papa.

Scaling the 125-foot tower and contending with swooping peregrines to retrieve and return the chicks isn't for the faint of heart, and Rosa Grijalva of Grand Forks was among the trio climbing Monday.

Her dad, Jim, was a climber in 2008, the first year peregrines nested in Grand Forks, and he watched Monday as Rosa climbed the tower.

"It's more of a tradition—he let me do this," said Rosa, 18, a recent Central High School graduate. "It was really a cool experience. I hope I can do it again."

Grand Forks and Fargo have the only known nesting peregrines in North Dakota. Earlier Monday, Driscoll banded the first peregrine hatched in Crookston, a single male. A pair also is nesting this year in Moorhead, he said.


Source: https://www.grandforksherald.com/outdoors/wildlife/4282308-peregrine-banding-draws-crowd

The Peregrine Chick:
https://twitter.com/mbperegrines/status/874289123842043904

Alison:
I hope that Terminator and Marv will have another very successful year.

Band confirms it: Terminator's back in town

By Brad Dokken Today at 3:52 p.m.

Just like the infamous "I'll be back" line from the "Terminator" movies, the female peregrine by the same name is back in Grand Forks for another nesting season.

Grand Forks birding authority and avid photographer Dave Lambeth got a confirmation on Terminator's band number Friday. The photos weren't clear enough to run in print, Lambeth said, but they clearly show the "T over 2" band number that confirms her identity.

Terminator, first spotted Thursday by the UND water tower, has been the matriarch of Grand Forks' peregrine clan since 2008. This will be her 10th nesting season in Grand Forks. She nested the first couple of years atop the old Smiley water tower but moved to the UND water tower after Smiley came down, and the nest box was moved.

This year's return was Terminator's earliest to date, said Tim Driscoll, local raptor expert and licensed bander who keeps track of such things. Last year, Terminator returned March 24, a day later than this year, he said.

Marv, the female's mate since 2014, returned a few days earlier. Peregrines don't migrate together but return to the same mating sites each spring.

Driscoll said he saw the pair copulating Sunday.

"I'm thrilled," he said. "This is year No. 10. He's back, she's back and they both know the drill."

Hatched in 2006 in Brandon, Man., Terminator got her name from the "T2" band number. The movie "Terminator 2" widely was known as "T2," for short.

Terminator has had four chicks each of the past two years.

"She's fine, and she looks healthy," Driscoll said.

Hatched in 2013 in Fargo, Marv is named after Fargo TV personality Marv Bossart, who died that same year.

http://www.grandforksherald.com/outdoors/4241312-band-confirms-it-terminators-back-town

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