{"id":93541,"date":"2018-05-10T10:58:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T14:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=93541"},"modified":"2018-05-10T10:58:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T14:58:08","slug":"first-hatch-of-the-season-for-uticas-peregrine-falcons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=93541","title":{"rendered":"First Hatch of the Season for Utica’s Peregrine Falcons"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"First Hatch of the Season for Utica’s Peregrine Falcons<\/strong><\/p>\n

The first hatch of the Utica Peregrine Falcon’s 2018 breeding season happened at approximately\u00a07:02, Wednesday morning. A second hatch occurred\u00a0only hours later at\u00a010:37. The hatched eggs are two of four that the female falcon laid back in early April. The falcons occupy a nest box located on the 15th floor of the Adirondack Bank building in downtown Utica.<\/p>\n

Both hatches were monitored\u00a0via\u00a0streaming internet cameras.\u00a0Members\u00a0of the Utica Peregrine\u00a0Falcon Project\u00a0had predicted the hatch day based on when the parent\u00a0birds began incubating the eggs. Peregrine eggs normally\u00a0take 29 to 34 days to hatch once incubation commences. The relatively long hatching process began\u00a0Tuesday\u00a0evening when a\u00a0hole appeared in one of the eggs.\u00a0The hole, called a “pip”, was created when the chick within the egg used its egg-tooth to break through the shell. Soon after, begging calls began to be heard from the chick within the pipped egg.<\/p>\n

This is the fifth consecutive year that Utica’s falcons (named Astrid and Ares) have produced young. In 2014 this pair became the first of their species ever known to successfully\u00a0raise young in Utica or Oneida County. Peregrine Falcons remain listed as an Endangered Species in New York State. Back in 2013, in an effort to assist in the falcons\u2019 recovery, a specially designed nest box was installed on the 15th floor of the Adirondack Bank Building in Downtown Utica.<\/p>\n

The Utica Peregrine Falcon Project was formed to safeguard and monitor the birds and their nest site. There are currently over 75 pairs of Peregrines known to be nesting in New York State. About half of those nests are in cities. Updates on what is occurring\u00a0with the falcons as well as streaming video from the Utica nest site is available from the UPFP’s website:<\/p>\n

Uticaperegrinefalcons.com<\/p>\n

Frequent updates are also available from the UPFP Faceboook page called Falcon Watch Utica.<\/div>\n
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Ten years ago in 2008, Utica had its first pair of nesting Peregrine Falcons. That pair, named May and Tor, nested on M&T Bank’s historic Gold Dome building. That original\u00a0pair never produced viable eggs.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First Hatch of the Season for Utica’s Peregrine Falcons The first hatch of the Utica Peregrine Falcon’s 2018 breeding season happened at approximately\u00a07:02, Wednesday morning. A second hatch occurred\u00a0only hours later at\u00a010:37. The hatched eggs are two of four that the female falcon laid back in early April. The falcons occupy a nest box located […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}