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The Cape Florida Banding Station is one of the few banding stations on the Southeast Atlantic Coast and has stayed open thanks largely to the work of a single, driven scientist.
Three fuzzy gray-white lumps of fur practice flapping their tiny wings in their nest within the Campanile. Although they are still being fed by their parents, these falcon chicks are quickly learning how to walk, run and eventually fly.
On May 12, UC Berkeley’s three new peregrine falcons were all determined to be male during Banding Day. Each chick received one band from the national Bird Banding Laboratory with a unique nine-digit number, along with a four-digit visual identification band that allows people to more easily identify the birds from a distance.
“Right now, they are mostly doing a lot of napping, but in about a week, it’s going to get really exciting as they will take time to run around the tower like crazy little toddlers,” said Sean Peterson, a campus doctoral student and social media director for Cal Falcons. “They will be trying to flap their wings and learn how to move and run. It’s just a really fun time when they kind of leave the nest and explore t
Why volunteers are needed to help save Michigan’s imperiled black terns
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Michigan s black tern population has plummeted more than 70 percent in recent years. | Photo by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
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Agile, charismatic, and striking in appearance, black terns can be spotted returning to Michigan freshwater marshes this time of year, where they’ll spend the summer raising their young and acrobatically foraging for food.
But black tern populations are plummeting for reasons researchers don’t yet fully understand, leading to a need for volunteers to help survey these graceful birds.
Across North America, black tern numbers have dropped by 61% during the past 50 years. In Michigan, that number is even more dire, with the species’ population down by 71%. Black terns are listed as a Michigan Species of Special Concern.