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paired with an unidentified male (banding status uncertain). Three young were produced and<br />

banded on May 14, 2007.<br />

165. SP-AmerenUE, Labadie Power Station, St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri. Mike Cooke<br />

reported that, for the sixth year, a pair nested in a box on a catwalk 450 feet up on a smokestack.<br />

Neither adult was identified. Two young, a male and a female, were banded on May 17, 2007.<br />

166. SP-Washington University Medical School, St.Louis, Missouri. This site was first occupied<br />

in 2006. Mike Cooke reported two female young banded on June 11, 2007. Adults were not<br />

identified. Three young were produced, but the site was not accessible for banding. The two<br />

banded young were captured when they grounded on their first flights.<br />

167. SP-Ameren UE Sioux Power Plant, Portage de Sioux. New Site. One young male was<br />

banded on June 14, 2007 after fledging. Site was unknown prior to that event and it is not known<br />

how many young may have been present.<br />

168. SP-AT&T (previously SWB) Downtown St. Louis. Mike Cooke reports three females were<br />

banded at this site on July 11, 2007. The adults were unidentified. The female was unbanded.<br />

Mike speculates that this was the downtown nest site that they have been unable to locate for the<br />

previous 4 years. The nest box was last used in 2003.<br />

KENTUCKY<br />

Eight active pairs were monitored at 7 sites (the female at the Ghent Power Station was killed<br />

and replaced after egg laying). Thirteen nestlings were banded at 5 sites, with nestlings fledged<br />

from all 7 sites.<br />

169. SP-KU Ghent Power Station, Ghent, Carroll Co., Kentucky. Shawchyi Vorisek and Budd<br />

Veverka report that 7-year-old female, T.C. b/g 7/*8, fledged in 2000 from the LG&E Power<br />

Plant in Bedford, paired with an unidentified adult male, laid 5 eggs in early April, but was killed<br />

in the nest box in late April, and replaced by the subadult female, JoJo b/g 75/C, fledged in 2006<br />

from the LG&E Power Plant in Bedford. The new pair produced 3 eggs, hatched one chick on<br />

June 6, and fledged one female around July 17. This female was banded on July 2.<br />

170. SP-LG&E (Trimble Co) Power Station, Bedford, Trimble Co., Kentucky. Shawchyi<br />

Vorisek and Budd Veverka report that the 10-year-old breeding male, Greyfire b/r *K/V, hacked<br />

at the Calloway Nuclear Plant in Fulton, MO in 1997, paired with a two-year-old unbanded<br />

female, after the 9-year-old female, Natasha b/r *6/Y, was found dead last year. This pair<br />

produced four eggs, hatched three young on April 22, and fledged two females and one male<br />

around June 2. The young were banded on May 17. A new nest box was installed at the end of<br />

the nesting season to accommodate construction at the site.<br />

171. SP-LG&E Millcreek Power Station, Jefferson Co., Kentucky. Shawchyi Vorisek and Budd<br />

Veverka report that an unidentified adult male paired with an unbanded female and are believed<br />

to be the same territorial pair from 2006. This pair used the nest box installed last year, produced<br />

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