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The Peregrine Chick:
Market Tower
Indianapolis, Indiana
(photos: building from Wikipedia; next box by WN.com; bird on box edge by Froona/CMNH)
Market Tower is a skyscraper located at the corner of Illinois and Market streets in Indianapolis, Indiana. The tower was completed in 1988 and it has 32 floors, making it the fourth-tallest building in the city. It is unknown whether the 8 spires at the top of the tower are included in the building height, which is 421 feet (128 m). Market Tower is the tallest concrete reinforced tower in the state of Indiana. It is primarily used for office space.
webcam link: http://www.indystar.com/story/life/falcon-blog/2013/10/28/falconcam/3289199/
website/blog link: http://www.indystar.com/blog/falconblog/
Resident Pairs & Offspring:
* coming soon
The Peregrine Chick:
Nipsco Schahfer Generating Station
Wheatfield, Indiana
(photo: plant by Ady Advantage)
Rollin M. Schahfer Generating Station is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by NiSource near Wheatfield, Indiana. Peregrines have been nesting on the Unit 14 stack since 1998.
webcam link: link has changed and url is unknown
Resident Pairs & Offspring:
* coming soon
The Peregrine Chick:
Engineering & Mathematical Sciences Building
University of Wisconsin Campus
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
(photos: both from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
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.
webcam link: http://bird.biosci.uwm.edu/webcam/birdcam/
website link: https://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/biologicalsciences/falcon/
Resident Pairs
* 2013 - Hoffman & ? --> Linnaeus (m), Asa (m), Carver (m) & Frances (f)
* 2012 - Hoffman & ? --> Allesandra (f), Penny (f), Ellen (f) & Maria (f)
* 2011 - Hoffman & ? --> Barbara (f), Dian (f), Nettie (f) & Muriel (f)
* 2010 - Hoffman & ? --> Leopold (f), Curtis (m), Marie (f) & Lynn (f)
* 2009 - Samson & ? --> Mendel (m), Rachel (f), Rosalind (f) & Jane (f)
The Peregrine Chick:
Biodiversity Research Institute
undisclosed lighthouse location, Maine
(photos: nest/nest tray by Allison)
webcam link: http://www.briloon.org/oae/webcams/peregrinecam
Its a nice website and two cams, one looking in, one looking out. Also a blog but doesn't really track day-to-day minutiae (or at least not so far). Nestbox has been replaced and there is now a lot less stress over the safety of the chicks-in-the-box.
The Peregrine Chick:
One Capital Centre Building
10th & Main Street
Boise, Idaho
(photos: building by Architecture Buff/Skyscraperpage forum; nestbox from Peregrine Fund website)
One Capital Center is a high rise building in Boise, Idaho. It is located at 999 Main St. The building has 14 floors and is 206 feet tall and was completed in 1975 by Mountain Bell. From 1975 to 1978 it was the tallest building in the city of Boise and the state of Idaho, but now it is the second tallest building in Boise. Billionaire J. R. Simplot (1909-2008) had an office on the top floor of this building. In April 2009, a webcam was set up to view a pair of peregrine falcons incubating four eggs in a nest on the fourteenth floor of the One Capital Center Building. (source: Wikipedia) Nestbox is on the northwest corner of the building on the 14th floor. Site is coordinated by The Peregrine Fund (Boise is where their headquarters is located).
webcam link: www.peregrinefund.org/webcam-peregrine
website link: http://www.peregrinefund.org/index.php (the main Peregrine Fund website)
Resident Pairs & Offspring:
* coming soon
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