1 February 2025
It’s Peregrine Season!
At present the Nationwide Aviary’s Falconcam on the College of Pittsburgh’s Cathedral of Studying has begun dwell streaming for the 2025 peregrine nesting season. Watch the Pitt falconcam to see the nesting season unfold.
For the subsequent six weeks we’ll see the resident peregrine falcon pair courting on the nest: Ecco (male, unbanded) and Carla (feminine, banded Black/Blue S/07). These two have been a pair ever since Ecco’s former mate, Morela, died in mid-Might 2023. Carla arrived that month but it surely was too late to start a nest in order that they waited till the subsequent season. Final spring they raised two younger.
If Carla follows the identical schedule as 2024 she’ll lay her first egg in mid-March, the eggs will hatch in late April, and the younger will fledge round 1 June.
This week when the stream was in take a look at mode it captured Ecco and Carla bowing on the nest. Watch as they strengthen their pair bond final Tuesday. (NOTE: Male peregrines are 1/3 smaller than females. The most important hen is feminine.)
Click on right here and scroll down to look at the Nationwide Aviary Falconcam on the Cathedral of Studying.
(photograph and video from the Nationwide Aviary falconcam at Univ of Pittsburgh)
