Four falcon eggs atop a bell tower at UC Berkeley are about to join a storied lineage at the university when they hatch on April 11.
Now comes the possible addition of four new birds into the mix. The momentous occasionFor bird watchers, the day is a chance to celebrate Annie and Lou, the parents of the latest clutch in the nest. They are currently taking turns sitting on the eggs, and their switching places and other activities are captured on webcams atop the Campanile tower at the Berkeley campus.
Since 2016 when the first falcon couple made a nest atop the tower, viewers have come to see the birds as having distinct personalities, although experts say falcons shouldn’t be viewed through such a lens. But anthropomorphizing — assigning human qualities to animals — isn’t all bad, Cal Falcons volunteer Mary Malec said.“Sometimes it’s hard to listen to,” Malec said about people weighing in online on the decisions the birds make as though they were plot twists in a telenovela.
Grinnell eventually recovered and returned to the nest but was found dead in May 2022 not too far from campus, according to Sean Peterson, a Cal Falcons supporter who is an associate professor at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. Again, these are merely birds doing their thing, Peterson said, but he can understand how the falcons remind their fans of parents taking care of their children.
Hatch Day is a party for the community that has followed the birds over the years, but it’s is also another chapter in a remarkable turnaround for a species that was once on the brink of extinction. By 1973, there were only five peregrine falcon nesting sites in California, Bell said. The species has managed to bounce back after several decades of conservation efforts and a federal ban on DDT. There are currently more than 400 breeding pairs in California alone,“I still have to pinch myself when I see a peregrine falcon: ‘Wow, they’re back. And they’re everywhere now,’” said Bell, who grew up in the San Francisco Bay area in the 1960s and never saw the birds in the wild.
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