Update: UC Berkeley’s falcon chicks are hatching!
As of Saturday afternoon, two falcon chicks had hatched successfully. Watch the Cal Falcons live Q&A session and watch party, also held Saturday.
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Watch the UC Berkeley peregrine falcons live
This is Annie and Grinnell’s fifth breeding season at the top of the Campanile. They’ve raised 10 chicks so far.
A guide to Berkeley’s shorebirds: See them now before they migrate
Now is a great time to get outside and do some birdwatching along our shorelines. Here is what to look for and where.
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The UC Berkeley peregrine falcons are back; and their first egg of 2021 has arrived
This is the falcons’ fifth breeding season at the top of the Campanile. There will likely be three more eggs laid over the next several days.
Berkeley nature, and our appreciation of it, kept us going in 2020
Nature played it both ways in 2020. Devastating wildfires were distressing, but the great outdoors also provided a balm for the anxieties wrought by a challenging year.
The 3 UC Berkeley peregrine falcon chicks now have names
California’s state flower and trees were the inspiration for the names of the chicks everybody — well, nearly everybody — loves to watch.
Triplets in the tower: UC Berkeley’s peregrine falcon chicks are here
With three fluffy chicks now in the sky-high nest, the couple who manage the Cal Falcon social project answer questions about what to expect next.
Update: UC Berkeley peregrine falcon chicks have hatched
Two chicks hatched Saturday and one on Sunday. The fourth egg broke and was unviable. Follow the action live on the webcams.
Watch Cal’s peregrine falcons
Annie and Grinnell are back nesting on top of UC Berkeley’s Campanile. Follow the action by webcam.
Peregrine falcon watching in Berkeley — the perfect shelter-in-place activity?
The peregrine falcons that have made their nest atop Cal’s Campanile for the past three years are back — and they have laid three eggs so far.
Coyotes are cavorting in Tilden Regional Park
Photographer Chris Polydoroff has been following — and documenting — a pack of five or six coyotes in Tilden Park.
Christmas bird count finds owls, otters and dry, happy birders
Over 250 bird lovers fanned out through Berkeley, Oakland and adjacent cities on Sunday as part of the count, the longest-running community science initiative in the world.
