His three siblings will soon fly away, leaving UC Berkeley to start new lives. But Nox, the youngest peregrine falcon to hatch on the Campanile this spring, won’t be doing the same just yet. Far from home, he’s healing from a broken wing.
What was once a massive pepper tree at the entrance of the California Raptor Center—felled because of a storm in recent years—has been replaced by a statue of a majestic barn owl named “Pepper.”