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UC Berkeley’s resident falcon chicks have been named Fauci, Wek’-Wek’ and Kaknu following a voting process run by Cal Falcons with public submissions, polling and creative suggestions from Berkeley children.
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On May 12, UC Berkeley’s three new peregrine falcons were all determined to be male during Banding Day. Each chick received one band from the national Bird Banding Laboratory with a unique nine-digit number, along with a four-digit visual identification band that allows people to more easily identify the birds from a distance.
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UC Berkeley’s resident peregrine falcons Annie and Grinnell started to welcome their chicks into the world beginning April 17 after more than a month of careful incubation.
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Cal Falcons is using web cams to monitor the falcons that have nested on the Campanile. These falcons have recently hatched young juveniles.
The three peregrine falcon chicks living atop the Campanile have been given names, which were chosen via an online contest over the last week.
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After much anticipation with a citywide social media following, three peregrine falcon chicks hatched in a nest box on the upper balcony of the Campanile.
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The young falcons, Carson and Cade, both left their nest at the Campanile on Wednesday. According to Sean Peterson, a graduate student at UC Berkeley who is involved in the care of the falcons, after they both left the nest, Carson was the first to take flight on Wednesday evening. Cade, Peterson said, took flight the next day.
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In the past, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, or BAMPFA, has screened spectacles like the presidential elections or the World Cup — but Thursday, the museum will show the hatching of three eggs, currently incubated by UC Berkeley’s celebrity falcons Annie and Grinnell.
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Annie and Grinnell, two beloved peregrine falcons who call UC Berkeley’s Campanile home, laid their first egg Sunday night.
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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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