K.C. Star Reports on Shook Peregrine Falcon Naming and Banding Event

On May 15, a reporter-photographer team from the Kansas City Star attended and reported on the naming and banding of three peregrine falcon chicks hatched on top of the firm’s 24-story Kansas City office building this spring.

As a room of Shook employees watched, a team from the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC), led by Urban Wildlife Specialist Christopher Cain, brought the chicks from their nest into the building and identified the chicks’ genders, weighed them, and then banded their ankles as part of Missouri’s conservation program of the peregrine falcon, a once endangered bird, now listed as a “species of conservation concern.” 

The chicks are the result of the partnership between the law firm and the Dept. of Conservation and peregrine falcon pair Endura (the mom) and her mate. To date, the pair has produced and raised 28 chicks. 

Employees submitted 95 names which were put into a random drawing with the winners being “Sassafras” and “Goalden” for the females and “Moose” for the male chick.  

To see a video and read the account of the event from the Kansas City Star, see “Meet Goalden, Sassafras & Moose: Three Peregrine Falcon Chicks Hatched in K.C.”  To catch the livestream of the falcons as they continue on their journey, see @ShookFalconCam/live.