5 September 2022
On Labor Day let’s honor working birds.
Pictured above is a bird at work in 2009, a peregrine falcon named Charlie whose job was to clear birds from the airfield at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. His full crop indicates that he’d already done his job that day but he was looking around anyway, just in case some birds came back.
Charlie is one of several working falcons who make it safe for flights to take off and land at Ramstein. Click on this link to see photos when Ramstein AB celebrated their falcon workers on Earth Day 2018.
And don’t miss this vintage article featuring Rufus, the Harris hawk who patrols Wimbledon. (Includes video!)
(photo from Wikimedia Commons)
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