Recent Sightings Recent sighting: Urban Wildlife

Adapting to city life, two baby red-tailed hawks nest above a narrow, fourth-floor section of window frame jutting out from the campus’s Weeks Hall for Geological Sciences. Building occupants first noticed a female red-tailed hawk building a nest in early April, followed by the presence of the baby wildlife in early May. Red-tailed hawks typically raise one brood a year, with the young leaving their mother’s care 44-46 days after nesting. They have an average lifespan in the wild of 13 to 20 years.

Photo: Jeff Miller