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Posted by: STONERS 2 years, 9 months agoA peregrine falcon shrieked in vain Friday as scientists snatched three eggs from his precarious perch beneath the Bay Bridge in an attempt to save the chicks from a deadly fall or car collision when they hatch.
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March 30, 2007, 10:50 p.m."It's the most dangerous place in the world for them," said Brian Latta, a University of California, Santa Cruz, biologist who removed the eggs from a narrow beam about 200 feet above San Francisco Bay.
The parents, dubbed George and Gracie, had nested for years on the 33rd floor ledge of a downtown skyscraper, where they raised several clutches of chicks. The pair relocated to the bridge this year at the same spot where George hatched in 1999 and was rescued in a similar operation before he was old enough to fly.
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