WATCH: Peregrine falcon chicks nest atop Kansas City building

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – Spring and summer means a pair of peregrine falcons are nesting atop a Kansas City building.

It’s part of an effort through the Missouri Department of Conservation to restore falcons across the state. The department said the falcons originally nested on cliffs. Now they are drawn to the ledges of tall buildings.

One of those buildings stands near 25th Street and Grand. The Department of Conservation installed a next box on the roof. This spring a falcon pair claimed the box and guarded four eggs in the nest.

The eggs hatched and people can now watch a live feed of the young birds grow from a camera feed streamed to YouTube.

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Another camera is mounted in a nest box on a smokestack at the Iatan Energy Plant near Weston, Mo.

The Missouri Department of Conservation checks in on the falcon families and bands the young birds before they leave the nest. Biologists use the leg bands to track the movements of falcons across the country.

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