Ball State University. Muncie, IN 47306. Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action . Janie Fink, left, raptor biologist, shows off one of the six peregrine falcons that a group of Ball State students hopes will repopulate the community with the birds.
Fink manages to hang on to one of the birds.
After a 14-hour drive from a breeder in South Dakota, the six peregrine falcons were unveiled to the public at the Delaware Building, 201. The young birds, who ranged in age from 41 to 43 days, were examined, banded and placed in their new homes two enclosed boxes located on the top of the six story building. The clutch, as small groups of young falcons are called, are part of a Ball State University project to repopulate the community with the birds. When they first began to retrieve the birds at the breeder, it really hit me that we were doing this. Fisher admitted that Rose, the largest female, is her favorite because her late grandmother loved the flower.