3 May 2024

Usually there’s not much bird news in the media, but this was a big week so let’s catch up.

Peregrine falcon chick in Cathedral of Learning nest dies, CBS News, includes comments from Bob Mulvihill at the National Aviary. This is in addition to my report: Now There Are Only Two.

Flying high: Peregrine falcon population likely growing statewide, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Happy news continues on the peregrine’s success story in Pennsylvania.

Here come the early birds: Hummingbirds and warblers part of the first wave of spring migrants News on spring migration and recent hot weather.

And in case you missed it earlier this week, I appeared in a birding segment on KDKA’s Talk Pittsburgh with hosts Heather Abraham and Boaz Frankel at Frick Park.

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