{"id":629,"date":"2026-05-27T13:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/?p=629"},"modified":"2026-06-05T13:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:16:07","slug":"10-day-old-peregrine-falcon-nestlings-checkup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/2026\/05\/27\/10-day-old-peregrine-falcon-nestlings-checkup\/","title":{"rendered":"10 day old Peregrine Falcon Nestlings Checkup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On May 22, we visited this site with Union County staff to medicate the two ~ 10 day old peregrine falcon nestlings for a pigeon borne disease called trichomoniasis. Both were healthy with no signs of the disease and had average weights for their age at 217 &amp; 226 grams. The medication was administered with raw chicken. The three unhatched eggs were removed from the nest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will return in two weeks with NJDEP Fish &amp; Wildlife to band the two nestlings for future tracking when they are around three weeks old. Then we will be able to determine their sex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2026\/06\/image-1-683x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2026\/06\/image-1-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2026\/06\/image-1-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2026\/06\/image-1-768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2026\/06\/image-1-1024x1536.png 1024w, https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2026\/06\/image-1-1200x1800.png 1200w, https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2026\/06\/image-1.png 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 22, we visited this site with Union County staff to medicate the two ~ 10 day old peregrine falcon nestlings for a pigeon borne disease called trichomoniasis. Both were healthy with no signs of the disease and had average weights for their age at 217 &amp; 226 grams. The medication was administered with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"1970-01-01 00:00:00","action":"","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","browser_timezone_offset":0},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}