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Banding Day
Ohio Division of Wildlife biologists are banding the four eyases this morning, Tuesday May 13. Watch the images as the drawbridge is brought up to prevent the eyases from getting to close to the edge of the ledge. The eyases will be brought into the Greenbriar Suite and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service bands will be attached to their legs. The bands have unique identifying numbers and codes so that the individual falcons can be identified in the future. A blood sample will be drawn for genetic analysis. The youngsters will then be returned to the nest unharmed.
Buckeye and S/W will be attendance at the ledge trying to see what is going on with their young. Within a hour or so after the banding all will be returned to normal on the 12th floor of the Terminal Tower and the eyases will be able to be identified for the rest of their lives. It is through these bands that we know that Onyx, who fledged from the Terminal Tower in 2006, now has a mate and is nesting at the Tower east building in Shaker Heights.
Watch the images as they update through the morning to catch all the action.
HarveyonTue 13 May 2008 - 09:49:34
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