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3 peregrine falcon chicks hatch in Terre Haute
Sunday June 3, 2012, 7:09 PM
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — Three peregrine falcons chicks have successfully hatched atop a 15-story building on the Indiana State University campus.
The birds were banded last week by state Department of Natural Resources staff wearing hard hats, protective eye wear and thick coats as two parent birds circled above the Statesman Towers complex.
ISU biology Professor Steven Lima tells the Tribune-Star (
http://bit.ly/K7ZlkT ) the chicks hatched as a result of the third nesting attempt by the nesting pair. He says it's likely the first successful peregrine falcon nest in western Indiana and adjacent eastern Illinois in 50 years.
The raptor was re-introduced in Indiana about 20 years ago first in Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, South Bend and Evansville. The nest on the ISU campus is among 16 known to exist round the state this sprin
