Minnesota has some new residents — baby falcons! Three peregrine falcons hatched at a monitored nest box in St. Paul last week. Unfortunately, one of the chicks didn’t make it, but the new parents, an 11-year-old female and a 15-year-old male, are busy tending to the needs of the two surviving chicks.

You can keep up with the new family on the Department of Natural Resources’ FalconCam.

The baby falcons are called eyasses (or eyas if it’s singular) and their white down will soon be replaced with sturdier feathers. There is still time to watch them grow, though. Eyasses don’t normally fledge — or grow feathers big enough for their first flight — until around the 30- to 45-day mark. Let’s celebrate the new peregrine falcons with music.

So for today’s coffee break, what songs about birds would you like to hear?

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Songs Played
Wilco – Hummingbird
The Apples In Stereo – The Bird That You Can't See
Amanda Shires – Hawk For The Dove
Charlie Parker – Chasin' the Bird
Mickey Murray – The Buzzard
The Time – The Bird
The Trashmen – Surfin' Bird