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CA / San Jose - 2009-15
carly:
2011 NESTING SEASON
Just saw posted on BCAW..Clara and EC have their first egg today too! Let the season begin!
Alison:
At the nest today:
Alison:
Voting has begun for names for the chicks at San Jose:
Vote on falcon chick names
SAN JOSE, CA - Thursday is the last day to vote on names for San Jose City Hall's newest falcon chicks. Voting for celebrity falcons Clara and Esteban Colbert's offspring - one female and two male chicks - ends at 5 p.m. Votes can be cast on the San Jose Peregrine Falcon Alliance website.
The choices for the lone female chick are Artemis, Aurora, Destiny, Estrellita and Maya.
The male names are Hunter, Kekoa, Milagro, Perry, Scout, Swift, Tez, Toofan, Velox, Vehemens and Vincent.
The names in the poll were suggested by schoolchildren in San Jose. The winning names will be announced on the website.
The falcon chicks were born last month on a ledge atop San Jose City Hall. Glenn Stewart, coordinator of the predatory bird research program at the University of California at Santa Cruz, who banded the chicks, said all three chicks are healthy. This is Clara's fourth nesting season at City Hall and her second with mate Esteban Colbert.
The FalconCam, a live streaming video of the falcons' nest on a City Hall ledge 18 stories above the street, can be viewed on the San Jose city website.
http://www.news10.net/news/watercooler/story.aspx?storyid=81396&catid=335
To vote: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9T6MYDM
bcbird:
Thanks, for the links, Alison.
The video of the banded chicks is quite cute.
All three spend a bit of time peering down as if trying to see how the new bling looks.
Alison:
From another article: there are two male chicks and one female.
SAN JOSE -- The three Peregrine Falcon fledglings sitting atop San Jose's City Hall have undergone an examination that will make naming them easier. Glen Stewart with the UC Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group has determined what their genders are. Two of them are male and the other is female.
After conducting the examination, Stewart was able to put bands on them. However, the banding did not come easily. Falcon parents Clara and Esteban Colbert swooped down on the perceived intruder 50 to 80 times while he was trying to work. He says that the parents thought they won the battle after he left the ledge.
Stewart says the fledglings are in "robust" condition.
San Jose students are holding a naming contest for the falcons.
http://kliv.com/Gender-of-falcon-chicks-determined/6956200
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