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WILD NEW JERSEY: Associated Press: N.J. falcons helps species rebound nationally

Associated Press: N.J. falcons helps species rebound nationally

Glenn Stewart, left, director of the Predatory Bird Research Group at UC Santa Cruz tags a Peregrine Falcon
chick with the help of Zeka Kuspa, right, on the roof of a Pacific Gas and Electric building in San Francisco.
Photo Credit: Associated Press

Two peregrine falcon chicks appeared tame as kittens in their cardboard cat box that served as a temporary home last week. State biologists plucked the fierce birds of prey — the fastest animals on the planet — from their lofty nest high above commuters on the New Jersey side of the Walt Whitman Bridge.

The state's Nongame and Endangered Species program recently shipped them off to West Virginia to help repopulate a part of the country that until recently had not seen peregrine falcons in 50 years. The down-covered chicks will learn to fly at the famed New River Gorge, where they are expected to make themselves at home among rocky cliffs. But they awaited their departure at state offices in the Lester G. MacNamara Wildlife Management Area in the marshes of Tuckahoe, Cape May County.