aggiornamento : 3 giovani, banding effettuato il 1° giugno, nomi il maschio Talyn e le due femmine Aerial e Centry....
qui sotto l'eco di un quotidiano e qui il link ad un video ..
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YOUNGSTOWN — Downtown workers Stephanie Dyer and Kathy Zook keep a close eye on a pair of peregrine falcons that nests in the Stambaugh Building on Federal Plaza.
"We see them flying around. We see them storing their food in what we call their refrigerator — a little nook," said Dyer. "We saw them mating a lot this year."
Lately, Stammy and Stellar — as the birds are known by the Ohio Division of Wildlife agents who track their motions — have been busy rearing a brood of three hatchlings.
These three snowy-downed youngsters are what attracted a crowd to the vacant building next to Buffalo Wild Wings Thursday. Wildlife management specialists Damon Greer and Dan Kramer visited the nest to initiate the new chicks with the ritual their parents, brothers and sisters have all undergone — ID tagging.
Dyer and Zook joined wildlife officials on the trek up 10 flights of stairs to the site where the birds would be examined and leg bands would be applied. The task would not be completed without arousing panic in every member of Youngstown's falcon family.
The adolescent birds screeched helplessly on the makeshift examining table, even as Zook took her turn holding one bird like a baby. Outside the building, its parents circled, emanating frantic cries for help above oblivious downtown traffic.
"It will all be over soon," said Greer as he set to work banding the first female, like a doctor administering a shot to a child. He called out the number, "220672346."
Keeping track
It will be entered in the bird-banding database in Maryland and used to monitor the bird throughout its life, he said. The procedure is the reason Greer knows Stellar comes from a Cleveland steel mill and Stammy is a Pittsburgh native, he said.
Ohio Department of Natural Resources employees like Greer and Kramer have tagged city-dwelling falcons in all of Ohio's major cities. Once extinct in the eastern and central United States, the birds were reintroduced to Ohio in the 1980s.
Though peregrine falcons have made a strong recovery, they remain endangered in Ohio. The birds suffered near annihilation after the introduction of the synthetic pesticide called DDT during World War II. The chemical substance interfered with egg production, causing falcons to produce eggshells so thin they could not withstand the weight of an incubating adult, according to ODNR. As a result, in 1965, no peregrine falcons were hatched in the eastern or central U.S. DDT was banned in 1972.
Returning to Ohio
The first peregrine pair to inhabit Ohio's cities was discovered in the 1980s, residing in a Toledo sky-scraper, said Greer. The birds' choice of stony nesting sites parallels their natural habitats — canyons.
"We call these [buildings] urban canyons," said Kramer.
About the size of a crow, the peregrine falcon feeds on pigeons and small songbirds, said Greer. But city dwellers need not fear their dive, which can reach speeds of more than 80 miles per hour.
"They catch birds that are actually in flight," said Kramer. "They'll fly above them and hit them with a closed fist and catch them before they hit the ground."
A group from the Eastgate office, 100 Federal Plaza, collaborated to produce a list of possible falcon names. Dyer and Zook called the first chick Talyn. The other two fledglings, both females, will be called Aerial and Centry. "C-E-N-T-R-Y," said Dyer. "Like a soldier."
Friday, June 1, 2007
By ANGIE SCHMITT
"Il gatto disse: non sono un amico e non sono un servitore. Sono il gatto che cammina da solo e desidero entrare nella tua tana." Rudyard Kipling
Foto di Chad+Chris, naturalmente! 
Stellar