Cal Falcons: Banding Day Highlights 🐥🐥🐥🐥 3 cam compilation📽️ 2024 May 15

It was a successful banding day for the Cal Falcons chicks. There are two females (yellow & green bands) and two males (blue & silver bands).

So many highlights, but click on the timestamps below to jump to specific ones:

00:00 Just an ordinary day
01:46 The unfeathered monsters arrive
03:06 Falcons start alarm calling
04:15 Annie & Archie defend area
05:57 Banding of first 2 chicks
08:06 Slo-mo defense swooping
09:35 Second 2 chicks dreading their turn
10:43 Third chick banded
11:12 Chick puffed up in defensive pose
11:28 Annie & Archie swooping
11:52 Fourth chick banded
12:10 Annie & Archie swooping together
13:05 Feather sample taken
14:09 Annie lands -- intruders still there
14:55 Recovery after intruders leave
16:33 Breakfast resumes
17:39 Chicks watch Annie leave
18:24 Fabulous pile of falcon fluff

Courtesy Cal Falcons, UC Berkeley (https://www.calfalcons.berkeley.edu)
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South/West Balcony Cam:    • Cal Falcons South/West Cam, UC Berkeley  
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