Our friends over at the Woodmen (http://falcons.woodmen.org/) in Omaha announced this morning a mystery that was covertly solved late last week. There is a new male Peregrine Falcon at the Woodmen this spring, supplanting the long-lived Zeus. Surprise, surprise, the new male Peregrine in Omaha was hatched at the Capitol in 2010. It has the band combination 57/H and was assigned the name “Mintaka” as a result of our “name-the-chicks” contest. It was just over a week I blogged …
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