{"id":176814,"date":"2026-04-26T21:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T21:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176814\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T21:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T21:17:15","slug":"3-peregrine-falcon-chicks-hatch-in-cathedral-of-learning-nest-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176814\/","title":{"rendered":"3 peregrine falcon chicks hatch in Cathedral of Learning nest \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 High above the crowds in Pittsburgh for the NFL Draft, the team of a beloved peregrine falcon pair was growing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The National Aviary says falcons Carla and Ecco welcomed three hatchlings in their nest on the side of the Cathedral of Learning over the weekend. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The first chick hatched late on Friday evening. The next two hatched on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">There is a fourth hatch in this clutch, and the Aviary says if it\u2019s fertile, it will likely hatch by Sunday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Carlo and Ecco will now be busy around the clock, feeding and caring for their chicks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aviary.org\/birds-habitats\/live-streams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.aviary.org\/birds-habitats\/live-streams\/\">Click here<\/a> to watch the live Peregrine FalconCam. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 High above the crowds in Pittsburgh for the NFL Draft, the team of a beloved peregrine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[71537,79056,14181,79052,79053,50269,6644,22694,64917,3537,50270,73,79055,79054,75,74],"class_list":["post-176814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-carla","tag-cathederal-of-learning-falcon-nest","tag-cathedral-of-learning","tag-ecco","tag-falcon-pair","tag-falconcam","tag-falcons","tag-national-aviary","tag-national-aviary-falcons","tag-nfl-draft","tag-peregrine-falcons","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-falcon-pair","tag-pittsburgh-falcons","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}