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		<title>News regarding the upcoming Peregrine Falcon nesting season at the Statler</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kimmarie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The future of the Statler Building is uncertain right now. Efforts to purchase the Statler have fallen through and the building has been &#8220;moth balled&#8221;. The Peregrine nest is still there, but there will be no web camera this season. With all of this in mind, I received the following via email from Connie Adams, Sr. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buffalo and Western NY News!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 01:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kimmarie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where to begin on news and updates????
Well the Statler (Downtown) Buffalo, NY Peregrine Falcons have 4 eggs in the nest as of this morning. AND this year we also have a second pair of Peregrines just within the city&#8217;s Northeastern border/city limits.
The South Campus of the University of New York at Buffalo (UB) had two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DOING RIGHT BY THE BIRDS/Hunters embrace lead-free</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marwee</dc:creator>
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Saturday, February 14, 2009
Last June, shortly before a law banning the use of lead ammunition in California Condor country was about to go into effect, we urged the state’s hunters to get behind the new regulations, saying it was not too much to ask of them.
It seems they were listening.
The Fish and Game Commission reported [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tejon Ranch and the Condors &#8211; Please Read</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kimmarie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marwee asked me to post this for her.
  
 California Condor in Flight showing off its 9+ foot wing-span.
Photo: Noel Snyder, USFWS 
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 23, 2009 &#8211; The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released a draft plan today that would allow the Tejon Ranch Company to harm and harass the iconic and extremely endangered California condor. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Falcon Watch and Update on the Buffalo Peregrine Falcons!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kimmarie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buffalo Falcon Watch Tonight!
Irinash, Joyce and I met for Falcon Watch earlier this evening &#8211; both adults and all four juvenile falcons were seen. Details are on our forum and I&#8217;m including this brief vid clip of two of the female juvenile falcons flying overhead (I really don&#8217;t like YouTube&#8217;s poor quality, but the original [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buffalo, NY Peregrine Falcon Family on the Local News</title>
		<link>http://www.falconsandfriends.com/?p=139</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 00:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FalconFriend Admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight WGRZ (the NBC local affiliate) aired a segment about the Buffalo, NY Peregrine Falcons.
You can read more here and view the video: http://www.wgrz.com/news/news_
article.aspx?storyid=57856
And a belated Update!  The third egg hatched on 05/07/08 and number four  arrived just after midnight on 05/09/08.  The fifth egg remains unhatched at this time and will not hatch.  We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexander, NY &#8211; Two Bald Eaglets Banded</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 22:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kimmarie</dc:creator>
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Last year a new Bald Eagle nest was started in Alexander, NY but no young eaglets were produced. 
 Some of us in the area have been following the progress of this year&#8217;s nesting activities and on Mother&#8217;s Day I was able to visually confirm that there were two eaglets in the nest (and for the record, it was an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2nd Hatch for Buffalo, NY&#8217;s Peregrine Falcons (in progress 6:20pm EDT)</title>
		<link>http://www.falconsandfriends.com/?p=133</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 22:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kimmarie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I write this I am watching the second hatch in progress for the Buffalo Peregrines!  TWO HATCHLINGS IN ONE DAY!  WOO HOO!
Buffalo Audubon has a copyright on their web cam images, and unfortunately BAS will not give us permission to share cam captures from the cam on our website or forum but their live [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First 2008 Peregrine Falcon Hatch in Buffalo, NY</title>
		<link>http://www.falconsandfriends.com/?p=132</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 16:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>glenham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At approximately 12:15PM EST the first falcon eyas made its debut in the Peregrine Falcon nest located in Downtown Buffalo, NY.  Again this year the hatching was right on schedule!
Now to wait for the remaining eggs to also hatch.  Peregrine Falcons normally lay their eggs every other day and not all eggs hatch at the same time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raptors and Lead Poisoning</title>
		<link>http://www.falconsandfriends.com/?p=131</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kimmarie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our friend Lisa at Friends of Blackwater NWR has asked me to share news of her latest web log.  She has written an excellent piece on Raptors and Lead Poisoning &#8211; I encourage everyone here to read it and spread the word!
From Lisa - 
Raptors and Lead Poisoning
About a week ago, an event regarding a bald eagle [...]]]></description>
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