Every May, Norman Smith, Director of Mass Audubon’s Blue Hills Trailside Museum, and Tom French, Director of Mass Wildlife’s Natural Heritage and Endangered Species program, band peregrine falcon chicks in Boston. You can learn more about why we band falcons here.
Norman Smith with an adult peregrine falcon via Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs.
Among this year’s banding locations were the Marriott Vacation Club Pulse at Custom House and Christian Science Center Building. At the latter, Smith and French were joined by Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Matthew Beaton and President of Mass Audubon Gary Clayton.
Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Director Tom French, Mass Audubon Blue Hills Trailside Museum Director Norman Smith, Mass Audubon President Gary Clayton, Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Matthew Beaton via Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs.
Read some of the local coverage about the banding here, here and here.
I saw a peregrine resting on a wire at Ocean Bluff Marshfield this morning she had a green band on left leg. Where was she banded?