http://youtu.be/dui1lOeKbb4 These 2 were not putting up with the researchers near their babies! You can hear the hits!
There was another video put out last year also.
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The University of Toledo in Ohio keeps a peregrine falcon nesting box on the top of the university clock tower. Every year, the state Department of Natural Resources' Division of Wildlife temporarily removes the falcon's chicks from the box to take blood samples and attach bands to their legs for tracking. However, the grown-up falcons are not thrilled about this, and dive-bomb the researchers the entire time, like in this video from the 2012 banding. Peregrine falcons can achieve top diving speeds of up to 200 mph, and even though these falcons probably aren't going that fast, they're traveling fast enough to make all their sharp bits pretty dangerous. Hence the researchers' wooden shields. Is there a falcon whisperer of some sort the university can contact for this year?
