Comments on: Pitt Peregrine Alumni

By: Kate St. John

Kate St. John — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:29:35 +0000

Thanks for getting in contact with me. When I wrote this blog, I included only the birds born at University of Pittsburgh. I know there are two peregrines born at Gulf Tower who ended up in Ontario: A male peregrine from 2002 who nested at Lakeview Generating Station and then moved his territory to a Toronto high-rise. Is he the bird you're referring to? ...and... Pittsburgh Pete, born in 2006, whom I wrote about recently.

By: Mathew

Mathew — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:59:53 +0000

Hi Kate. We have a male Peregrine born in Pittsburgh now residing in Ontario Canada. He has been in the vicinity for many years and in 2008 established a new nest site with an Ontario female, at a residential condo.

Art McMorris, the Peregrine Falcon coordinator from the Pennsylvania Game Commission, using the band # from our resident male, confirmed that our male is from Pittsburgh, specifically the Gulf Tower. He was banded on May 3, 2002.

See http://www.asic.ca/peregrinefalcons to track the progress of him and his mate.

By: susan runco

susan runco — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:26:39 +0000

hi kate/my name is susan/i’m a grad at pitt and also a project worker for facilities management/about 4 yrs. ago one of the babies got hurt(his shoulder,i think)/anyway,he ended up between two benches at the william pitt union/i was on duty ,so i went to see what was going on/i ended up taking pictures of the falcon(i usually always carry my camera with me)/me and my co-workers called campus police who in turn called the WPC/it took about 3 hrs. before they arrived but a lot of people watched over him until they did/if you you would like a couple of those pictures just tell me where to send them to you/i love all animals but i especially love the peregrines/good luck, i hope you see them flying/i’m on vacation right now/i’m going to try and get over there to watch them/susan