A camera perched on the 21st floor of a building in Richmond, VA, allows you to live-stream the activities of peregrine falcons.
The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR) and Comcast Business are once again teaming up to allow bird lovers to follow falcons 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The camera—focused on a nest box at Riverfront Plaza’s West Tower—will follow a pair of falcons as they nest and raise offspring.
Peregrine falcons are listed as state-threatened in Virginia. More than 30 pairs of falcons (including the pair featured on the Riverfront Plaza camera) nest across Virginia each spring.
“We’ve seen the same birds from the past several years on camera,” says Meagan Thomas, with DWR. “This year, due to snow and ice in front of the box during February, it took us a bit longer to get individual confirmation. Once things started to melt, I was happy to see that it was the same pair.”
The camera will remain active through egg-laying, incubation, and hatching, following the growth of the chicks until they take their first flight.
To check out the camera, go to dwr.virginia.gov/falcon-cam.
