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Macbride Raptor Project checks on newborn falcon chicks
CEDAR RAPIDS - The boardroom 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 boardroom
Four baby falcons were banded, given health checks, and had a blood sample taken, before being put back in their 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. (Becky Malewitz/SourceMedia Group News)
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