Hatch Day returns! The Bay Area’s most famous falcons—Annie and Lou—are once again nesting in UC Berkeley’s Campanile, and if expert predictions are correct, they’ll be welcoming four new chicks into their family on Tuesday, April 11. Be sure to stop by BAMPFA that day to witness the hatching of these new arrivals on our colossal outdoor screen, where the event will be broadcast live from 9 AM to 5 PM via the Campanile’s “Falcon Cam”. A team of falcon experts will be on site to share their real-time insights about this special moment.

Once a perilously endangered species, peregrine falcons, the world’s fastest birds, have recovered spectacularly in North America thanks to protections from the Endangered Species Act. The Campanile has hosted a falcon nest since 2017, hatching two chicks that year and three in 2018. Two cameras were installed in the eyrie in 2019, offering livestream video available to the public 24/7 on UC Berkeley’s Falcon Cam website.

BAMPFA is proud to partner with the UC Berkeley Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, the East Bay Regional Park District, the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory, the Institute for Bird Populations, and Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group to present this momentous event. We hope you’ll join us to welcome these new chicks into the world!

Raptors featured in the BAMPFA Collection

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  Ando Hiroshige, Fukagawa Suzaki and Jumantsubo from 100 Famous Views of Edo, 1857; Full-color woodblock print; 13 1/8 x 8 5/8 in.; Gift of William Dallam Armes
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  Munakata Shiko, Hawk Woman, 1955; woodcut; 17 1/2 x 13 1/4 in.; Transfer from the Graphic Art Loan Collection, the General Library, University of California
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  Bunro, Untitled, 1801-1804; full-color woodblock print; 14 x 8 3/4 in.; Gift of William Dallam Armes
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  Kikukawa Eizan, Untitled, 1830s (detail); full-color woodblock print; 24 x 4 in.; Gift of William Dallam Armes
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  Kikukawa Eizan, Untitled, 1830s (detail); full-color woodblock print; 24 x 4 in.; Gift of William Dallam Armes

If you require accommodations to fully participate in this event, please contact us at bampfa@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible.