Peregrine Chicks Get Banded for Tracking in Duluth
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DULUTH - Some birds that have found a home at Minnesota Power will be leaving the nest in a few weeks.However, before they go the little birdies got a band and check- up.
Crews climbed the renewable energy stack to reach the three falcon chicks' artificial home.
They were born there as part of a project to protect the birds from extinction.
Banding them allows researchers to track the chicks and learn more about the species.
"Its unique conservation experience,” Raptor Resource Project Director Bob Anderson said. “I mean if you think of industry and help save an endangered species it's pretty phenomenal isn't it?"“It's a unique marriage, it truly is."
The chicks are named Surge, Jolt and Spike.
They make a total of 15 peregrines hatched at the artificial nest.