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Falcon banding at Univ. of Toledo

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An angry peregrine falcon parent circles the University of Toledo clock tower where its nest is located. .

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Ohio Department of Natural Resources workers protect themselves from angry peregrine falcon parents as they remove four baby chicks to be banded.

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Ohio Department of Natural Resource's Jennifer Norris, a wildlife research biologist, carries down a bucket with two of the four peregrine falcon chicks that live in a nest in the UT clock tower.

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Jennifer Norris, a wildlife research biologist, relocates a chick from the bucket to a box as she prepares to band four peregrine falcon chicks.

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An angry peregrine falcon chick bites the finger of Jennifer Norris, a wildlife research biologist, as she works to band the leg. Holding the chick is Bob Ford.

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Volunteer falcon watcher Mark Plessner, left, attaches a band to the foot of one of the four peregrine falcon chicks that reside int he UT clock tower. Plessner watches the falcons all year long, and named this falcon Unity, after a falcon who was born in the UT clock tower in 2009 recently died when it was hit by a car in New York. Jennifer Norris and Bob Ford hold the chick for him.

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Ohio Department of Natural Resource's Jennifer Norris, a wildlife research biologist, pulls one of four peregrine falcon chicks from its nest in the UT clock tower.

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A peregrine falcon chick sits in a bucket waiting to be banded.

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An angry peregrine falcon chick bites the finger of Jennifer Norris, a wildlife research biologist, as she works to band the leg.

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A peregrine falcon parent dive bombs naturalists from the Ohio Department of Natural Resource's Division of Wildlife who are removing the four chicks to band them.

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