Triplets in the tower: UC Berkeley’s peregrine falcon chicks are here — Berkeleyside

Two hatched on Saturday, the third on Sunday, their bodies wet from the fluid within the reddish-brown eggs that had been their home. But underneath their mother, Annie, the peregrine falcon chicks’ initial layer of down feathers soon dried and fluffed, and the babies began vocalizing in the open air>>>

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UC Berkeley peregrine falcon chicks expected to hatch imminently — Berkeleyside

It could happen today, the first cracks, or pips, in the four peregrine falcon eggs high in a nest on UC Berkeley’s Campanile. Offspring of four-time falcon parents Annie and Grinnell, the chicks are expected to fully emerge this Saturday, April 18. A campus Hatch Day event was held last>>>

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