{"id":11983,"date":"2011-05-31T04:45:22","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T09:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=11983"},"modified":"2011-05-31T09:48:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T14:48:33","slug":"falcon-chicks-banded-given-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/05_31_2011\/falcon-chicks-banded-given-names","title":{"rendered":"Falcon chicks banded, given names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The four chicks now living in the UT peregrine falcon nest atop of University Hall\u2019s bell tower raised the tally of successful hatches for parents Belle and Allen to 16 since 2007. <\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_11984\" style=\"width: 478px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/falcon-chick.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11984\" src=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/falcon-chick.jpg\" alt=\"One of the four new chicks waited to be banded.\" title=\"falcon-chick\" width=\"468\" height=\"383\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/falcon-chick.jpg 468w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/falcon-chick-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11984\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the four new chicks waited to be banded.<\/p><\/div>This year\u2019s brood received their identification bands and names May 19 when members of the Ohio Division of Wildlife peregrine tracking team arrived during a rare period of weak sun between the seemingly endless rain showers. <\/p>\n<p>The two male and two female three-week-old chicks were proclaimed as healthy and well-fed by Jennifer Norris, wildlife research biologist. <\/p>\n<p>The chicks were named to commemorate some of the international events marking their year of birth: Cairo for the Arab Spring, Sendai for one of the first Japanese cities affected by March\u2019s earthquake, Madison for the Wisconsin city where the U.S. organized labor debate ignited, and Gaia, the ancient name for Earth goddess, to represent the extreme weather events of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It won&#8217;t be long until there are four more peregrine falcons flying around UT&#8217;s Main Campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}