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UC Berkeley’s male peregrine falcon, Grinnell, has been injured in a fight against rival falcons.
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In collaboration with several outside organizations, UC Berkeley has implemented two cameras to hopefully catch the raptors’ hatching season this year. Leaders from East Bay Regional Parks, the Institute for Wildlife Studies, the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at Berkeley, or MVZ, and the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory, or GGRO, crowdfunded over $14,500, from 172 donors, for the cameras and their installation.
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The family of peregrine falcons living on the Campanile may soon star in a live webcam now that UC Berkeley has launched a crowdfunding effort to install cameras filming them.
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As Cal prepares to take on UCLA this weekend, there is a host of events to check out that are special to the homecoming season.
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The three chicks hatched mid-April, and the runner-up names were Cam, Pan and Ile, according to campus spokesperson Roqua Montez.
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As the winter breeding season approaches, the peregrine falcons that call UC Berkeley home may expand their population.
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A pair of nesting peregrine falcons have called the top of the tower home since January. In May, the pair birthed two female eyasses, nicknamed Fiat and Lux by the campus community. Late Monday afternoon, Fiat “fledged,” or took flight, according to Mary Malec. After almost a week of waiting, she and other volunteer ornithologists gathered Thursday to see the second baby take the plunge.
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