Matt Perry, co-founder and president of the Utica Peregrine Falcon Project, will describe in word and pictures the continuing success of the first successful nest of peregrine falcons in Oneida County Tuesday, May 17, at 7 p.m. at Oneida Public Library.
Perry will reveal the fascinating lives and breeding habits of a pair of these urban-dwelling raptors. He will also explain how the peregrine falcon “bounced back from the brink of extinction to become a fixture in urban ‘canyons’ across the state.”
The mating pair of the Utica Peregrine Project, Ares and Astrid, are currently nesting on the 15th floor of the Adirondack Bank Building in Utica. They can be seen via a live video camera at the project web site (http://www.big-green.net/falcon/).
In addition to serving as president of Utica’s Falcon Project, Perry is the Conservation Director and Resident Naturalist for Spring Farm CARES, an animal and nature sanctuary in Clinton. There he oversees the sanctuary’s habitat restoration project involving 260 acres of nature reserve.
Perry is also a regional editor of the quarterly journal “The Kingbird,” published by the New York State Ornithological Association, as well as a contributing writer of nature articles for Mohawk Valley Living Magazine.
For more information, stop by the Oneida Library, 220 Broad St., call (315) 363-3050 or consult the OPL web site at www.midyorklib.org/oneida.