Peregrine Falcons
Since 1998, a pair of peregrine falcons have nested on a 28th floor ledge of University Hall. Rosie has lived and nested there regularly hatching eggs annually. Until 2005, she lived with her mate Joshua; however, Joshua was found wounded in 2005 and while he was treated, Rosie found a new mate. Since then she has lived with an unbanded male (nicknamed "The Prof"). The falcons have been popular enough to have been featured in the Chicago Tribune and to have their own webcam.
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“Thus piteously Love closed what he begat:
The union of this ever-diverse pair!
These two were rapid falcons in a snare,
Condemned to do the flitting of the bat.”
—George Meredith (1828–1909)