MILWAUKEE – We Energies introduced that 5 of the peregrine falcon chicks that hatched this 12 months have now left the nest.
What we all know:
Scott, Atlanta, Eclispe, Leopold and Breezer have taken their first flights. Over the following few weeks, they’re going to be studying find out how to hunt prey and grasp their flying abilities. After that, they’ll fly off in separate instructions to begin their very own lives.
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The backstory:
There have been 12 falcon chicks born at We Energies energy vegetation this spring. Every was given names in honor of one of many falcon program’s “founding feathers”.
- Atlanta: Atlanta was born on the former Pulliam Energy Plant in 1996, and produced 41 chicks in her 12 years there.
- Scott: Scott nested in Oak Creek for 11 years. He raised 28 chicks between 2006 and 2016.
- Eclipse: Eclipse was the feminine falcon on the Oak Creek Energy Plant from 2011 to 2017. She was born in Ohio in 2009.
- Leopold: Leopold raised 42 chicks on the Nice Prairie Energy Plant in 1992.
What’s subsequent:
Although the mother or father falcons in Oak Creek and on the Valley Energy Plant in Milwaukee are formally empty nesters, there’s nonetheless loads of motion on the We Energies and Wisconsin Public Service live nest box cameras.
The chicks born on the Weston Energy Plant and Port Washington Producing Station are youthful and can doubtless stick round for a number of extra days or perhaps weeks.
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The backstory:
The We Energies Falcon Program was created to scale back the quantity of extinction for peregrine falcons. For the reason that restoration efforts started in 1992, this 12 months’s class of chicks brings the full variety of peregrines hatched, named and banded at We Energies and WPS energy vegetation to 465.
That is nearly 20% of all peregrine falcons born within the state of Wisconsin.
The Supply: Data on this report is from We Energies and prior FOX6 Information protection of the falcon program.
