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Chad and Chris put out the word that help is needed to ID a pefa banded Black/Green 77/BA seen in New Jersey.

Here is the facebook post link.

https://www.facebook.com/rob.mueller.9/posts/10153043088666677#!/ChadandChrisOhioPeregrinePage?hc_location=timeline (https://www.facebook.com/rob.mueller.9/posts/10153043088666677#!/ChadandChrisOhioPeregrinePage?hc_location=timeline)

Billy from Buffalo is banded 77/AX Black over Green.  Close, but no cigar! 

Just posted this over there...

I checked through the Rochester, NY band records. NY has been banding black/green VID on the left leg for several years with silver USFWS band on the right. The past few years we've had males in the 20s/BA series and females in the 90s/BA series. So I suspect it's a NY bird but likely from a different DEC region.

Something is tickling the back of my brain that I saw a video of a NYC bridge banding this year with a band number in the 70s/??, but I could well be WAY off on that.

We shall see...

No it's tickling my brain too, I know this band number from somewhere.  By 'know', I mean I saw it or one close to it either in video or a photo somewhere.

I checked all over for this band and I come up with nothing!! I searched for over an hour today on the net, finally pulled my hair out! Looks like a number we have seen, heard about, saw, but I got NADA!!

I'm thinking the reason why we think we've seen this band before is that in our minds we're combining Billy's 77/AX black/green band with our many BA black/green bands. 

You are probably right.  :happy:

Followup this morning...this is all the info posted,,,

* Thanks everyone... I'm adding to this post because this bird has been identified (as stated in a comment below) as a bird from NYC. We appreciate everyone's help and information! This is a great group of people with so much information to share about peregrines... thanks for taking the time to comment!*

Ah, you were right, Ei.  It is a NYC bird.

Do they know from where yet other than just NYC?   :clap:

In the comments, I found this-

*Bird Identity learned!! Thanks everyone! Heard back from the bander and the bird has been "found". He said it's a bird from Riverside Church in NYC. Thanks again for pitching in!

Here's where the nest is:

http://youtu.be/mGG8vZILKk0 (http://youtu.be/mGG8vZILKk0)

Bonnie watches Riverside Church!

 :2thumbsup:

Great news!  HOpe the reason they were asking was just because the bird has been 'seen' not injured.

Nice place for a nest! Thanks for sharing, Kris! :thanx:

OK YAY, they know where the falcon is from but why did they want to know?? Was it spotted? Does anyone know?

As far as I can tell from the FB post, it seems the pefa was "spotted".  Hopefully this means that there was not a problem!

Spotted is a good thing!!   ;)

Guess I should be checking here more often.  I never know the band numbers of the Riverside Church birds.  I do have pictures of the fledglings from this year.  Was this bird spotted at the Meadowlands DeKorte?  They have had quite a few young peregrines there lately.