GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – Friday was a big day for four baby falcons that recently hatched at the Georgia-Pacific Broadway Mill in downtown Green Bay.
Greg Septon, a peregrine falcon researcher, applied leg bands to the chicks which help provide important information on their movement, habitat needs and identification in the future.
Septon says the chicks are around 22 days old.
“They hatch in a staggered manner, usually three will hatch. When you have a full clutch of four eggs, three will hatch one day and the fourth egg generally hatches a day and a half to two days later.”
The first falcon nest at the mill was found in 2008.
Environmental Engineer, Mike Moore says the falcons are also a great moral booster for all the employees.
“It’s neat that every year we’re able to produce young; it brings our whole mill together. Everybody’s asking towards springtime, have the falcons returned, how many eggs do we have, how many chicks have hatched?”
Peregrine falcons were placed on the Wisconsin Endangered Species List in 1975.
