Meet the Baby Peregrines

[Liberal_in_LA]

Ugly things but 2nd pic shows what they'll look like as adults





Pip the Hawk Cam hawk is hardly the only new raptor in town. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority released a video guide Wednesday morning to the nine peregrine falcon hatchlings that emerged this spring in wooden nest boxes atop its bridges — three on the Throgs Neck; two on the Verrazano, 693 feet above the ground; and four in a World War II gun turret on the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge to the Rockaways.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/01/meet-the-baby-peregrines/

[ceile]

1. Cool!

[Booster]

2. Seems like most baby birds are really ugly, but then they grow

up to become something quite beautiful - all of them (with maybe the exception of buzzards).

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. agreed.

[XemaSab]

4. Some of us like vultures!

:D

Some of the quail, shorebirds, and other species that start running around right after they hatch are cute. Most baby birds, notsomuch.

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. baby chickens are adorable

[1monster]

6. Some breeds of chickens are absolutely gorgeous, especially after the cute baby

chick stage wears off.

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. wow..those are some fancy chickens

[mysuzuki2]

7. there are peregrine nesting boxes on top of the

engineering building at UW-Milwaukee too. There's a cam set up for them. Google UWM and go to biology dept and follow the links.