HELP PICK THEIR NAMES🐤 Annie, a mother peregrine falcon nesting on top of UC Berkeley’s Campanile, recently gave birth to three chicks - two girls and one boy - and she needs your help picking out their names! Which one is your favorite?
Lawrencium eventually flew out on her own and has made her home on Alcatraz Island, where the National Park Service has monitored her having a nest with a mate since at least 2020. They are the first peregrine falcons to nest there in recorded history.
Lidia D'Amico, the Alcatraz biologist for the park service's Golden Gate National Recreation Area, said the falcons' nest is along the western cliffs of Alcatraz in a location that is not visible from land but has a camera set up near the nest to monitor the birds' activity. Lawrencium, or "Larry" as D'Amico referred to her, was identified thanks to the band put on her leg by the Cal Falcons group of scientists and volunteers who monitor the nest at UC Berkeley, but her male mate has no such band.
Alcatraz, no stranger to dangerous characters residing at the infamous and now-shuttered prison there, now has the peregrine falcons considered as the apex predators on the island, D'Amico said.An adult peregrine falcon is one of the fastest birds in the world and can dive at speeds of up to 200 mph, and the ones at Alcatraz feed most often on other birds on the island and surrounding areas.
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