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MILWAUKEE – We Energies is extending the peregrine falcon naming contest through Sunday, May 10 due to popular demand.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Thousands of customers have already weighed in, casting their votes to name this year\u2019s peregrine falcon chicks after Milwaukee news anchors.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to We Energies, the contest has officially broken the record for total votes cast in any naming contest since the first one in 2019 \u2014 and it\u2019s not over yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n
FREE DOWNLOAD: Get breaking news alerts in the FOX LOCAL Mobile app for iOS or Android<\/a><\/p>\n Names in the running <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n These are the names that are in the running for the top spot at each station:\u00a0<\/p>\n FOX6\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n “Tom Squawks”\u00a0in honor of Tom Wachs”Gino Falcone”\u00a0in honor of Gino Salomone”Ted Perrygrine” in honor of Ted Perry <\/p>\n TMJ4<\/p>\n “Brian Nestnansky”\u00a0in honor of Brian Niznansky”Kidd O’Prey” in honor of Kidd O’Shea”Swoopin\u2019 Kim” in honor of Susan Kim <\/p>\n WISN 12<\/p>\n “Mark Birden”\u00a0in honor of Mark Baden\u00a0“Molly Birdnest” in honor of Molly Bernard”Diana Flewtierrez” in honor of Diana Gutierrez <\/p>\n CBS58<\/p>\n “Lance Talon”\u00a0in honor of Lance Allan”Jessob Reisbeak” in honor of Jessob Reisbeck”Alex Chirpadetti” in honor of Alex Corradetti <\/p>\n Spectrum News 1 Wisconsin<\/p>\n “Kristin Hatchell”\u00a0in honor of Kristin Ketchell\u00a0“Brooke Flighton” in honor of Brooke Brighton”Birdie Gunkel” in honor of Jesse Gunkel <\/p>\n Newsradio 620 WTMJ\u00a0<\/p>\n “Vince Falcono”\u00a0in honor of Vince Vitrano\u00a0“Flown Mercure”\u00a0in honor of John Mercure”Julia Feathers” in honor of Julia Fello Voting <\/p>\n What you can do:<\/p>\n To check out the full list of news anchors from every station, click here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n You can vote as many times as you\u2019d like<\/a> between now and Sunday, May 10, to make sure your favorite news anchor wins naming rights.<\/p>\n The Source: The information in this post was provided by We Energies.\u00a0<\/p>\n We Energies<\/a>Wisconsin<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Peregrine falcons return to We Energies power plants MILWAUKEE – We Energies is extending the peregrine falcon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,12325,452,453,25,186262,12440],"class_list":["post-623334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-organization","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-us","tag-we-energies","tag-wi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}