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Adorable Baby Falcons Hatched And Banded Atop Two Local Bridges [Video]

Two Southern Brooklyn bridges are home to some furry new faces this spring. Clutches of peregrine falcon chicks were banded last week atop the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge — unique nurseries that offer an incredible 360-degree view of New York’s skyline. Source:

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Photos: Resident Gets Close-Up Look At Red Tailed Hawk Hanging On His Balcony

Update (6:16 p.m.): Reader Christina “Know-it-all” K. wrote in to correct me: it’s a red tailed hawk. A juvenile, which is why its tail isn’t red yet. And maybe this guy is a relative of Pale Male [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Male]

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Baby Falcons Hatch On Top Of Marine Parkway Bridge

Awww (Source: MTAPhotos via flickr)In what invariably amounts to the MTA’s cutest press release ever, the Transit Authority has announced that six Peregine Falcon chicks have hatched this past month on top of both the Throngs Neck Bridge and the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge. According to