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Title: Falcon Cam at St Paul Minn. Post by: Donna on 23-May-11, 10:27:51 PM http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/features/webcams/peregrine.html (http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/features/webcams/peregrine.html)
A live webcam has been placed in a peregrine falcon box that is located in the Bremer Bank building in downtown St. Paul, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR). You can view the falcons at www.dnr.state.mn.us/features/webcams/peregrine.html (http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/features/webcams/peregrine.html). “We are very excited to provide this webcam, which allows the public a close-up view into the lives of these incredible birds,” Carrol Henderson, supervisor of the Nongame Wildlife Program said in a press release. Henderson is in charge of the falcon project. The DNR with cooperation from the Midwest Peregrine Society, the business tenants in Town Square, and Sentinel Properties, set up the camera to monitor the nest of a pair of peregrine falcons and their three young chicks. According to the release, the chicks hatched May 13-14 and will stay in the box, dependent on their parents, until late June or early July. The box is about 4 feet by 4 feet and is located 26 stories up. Peregrines do not “build” a nest, so pebbles were placed in the box to create a natural habitat. |