{"id":9151,"date":"2017-05-25T09:46:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T13:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/?p=9151"},"modified":"2017-05-25T10:37:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T14:37:16","slug":"banding-peregrines-2017-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/banding-peregrines-2017-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Banding Peregrines 2017 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every May, Norman Smith, Director of Mass Audubon\u2019s Blue Hills Trailside Museum<\/a>, and Tom French, Director of Mass Wildlife\u2019s Natural Heritage and Endangered Species<\/a> program, band peregrine falcon chicks in Boston. You can learn more about why we band falcons here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Norman Smith with an adult peregrine falcon via Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u00a0Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Matthew Beaton and President of Mass Audubon Gary Clayton.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p><\/div>\n

Read some of the local coverage about the banding here<\/a>, here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every May, Norman Smith, Director of Mass Audubon\u2019s Blue Hills Trailside Museum, and Tom French, Director of Mass Wildlife\u2019s Natural Heritage and Endangered Species program, band peregrine falcon chicks in Boston. You can learn more about why we band falcons here. Among this year’s banding locations were the Marriott Vacation Club Pulse at Custom House […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature-notes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3t87A-2nB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7663,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/banding-peregrine-falcon-chicks-in-boston\/","url_meta":{"origin":9151,"position":0},"title":"Banding Peregrine Falcon Chicks in Boston","author":"Hillary T.","date":"May 20, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Norman Smith, Director of Mass Audubon's Blue Hills Trailside Museum, and Tom French, Director of Mass Wildlife\u2019s Natural Heritage and Endangered Species program, completed another successful banding of Peregrine Falcon chicks in the clock tower of the Marriott Vacation Club Pulse at Custom House in Boston. 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