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Raptor Volunteers Work With Bank Birds
Updated at 5:30 p.m. by Dave Franzman
CEDAR RAPIDS- The board room at a downtown Cedar Rapids bank building hosted a meeting of a most unusual sort on Tuesday.
For about 20 years, U.S. Bank has provided a perch for a nest of peregrine falcons. On Tuesday, members of the Macbride Raptor Project gathered up the recently-hatched chicks for a checkup. And that checkup actually took place in the downtown bank's board room
Workers drew blood and also put on an identifying I.D. bank before taking the chicks back to the nest.Members of the raptor project said at least one of the parents is a peregrine falcon hatched at the same spot.
A Band is placed on a young peregrine falcon, Tuesday May 31, 2011 at the U.S. Bank Building in downtown Cedar Rapids. The falcon, and its three siblings, were banded, given health checks, and had a blood sample removed. Falcons have been nesting on top of the US bank building for more than 20 years. (Becky Malewitz/SourceMedia Group News)
Macbride Raptor Project intern Dalia Garcia, from Honduras, places a band on a young peregrine falcon, Tuesday May 31, 2011 at the U.S. Bank Building in downtown Cedar Rapids. The falcon, and its three siblings, were banded, given health checks, and had a blood sample removed. Falcons have been nesting on top of the US bank building for more than 20 years. (Becky Malewitz/SourceMedia Group News).
A young peregrine falcon waits to be banded, Tuesday May 31, 2011 at the U.S. Bank Building in downtown Cedar Rapids. The falcon, and its three siblings, were banded, given health checks, and had a blood sample removed. Falcons have been nesting on top of the US bank building for more than 20 years. (Becky Malewitz/SourceMedia Group News)
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