University Times

Four baby peregrines — three females and one male — were banded May 19 in the Babcock Room on the 40th floor of the Cathedral of Learning. Five chicks, the offspring of Pitt’s resident peregrine pair Dorothy and E2, hatched at the Cathedral of Learning nest in late April, but one did not survive.

Each year, the peregrine chicks are examined and banded with state and federal ID tags before they are old enough to fly.

At left, Pennsylvania Game Commission land management group supervisor Doug Dunkerley prepares a chick for banding. Below, veterinarian Robert Wagner, right, hands one of the chicks to the game commission’s Allegheny County wildlife conservation officer Beth Fife after its exam.

Video of the chicks being removed from and returned to the nest is part of the FalconCam archives at www.aviary.org/cons/falconcam_cl.php.