8 July 2026
Hello Everyone,
It is with the most profound sadness and anger that I write to tell you that Big Red and Arthur’s cute third hatch, P3, has died.
P3 died from a window strike on the Cornell University campus home to the Cornell Bird Lab.
The little Red-tailed Hawk was adored, and many of us have lobbied over the years to have all the windows on the Cornell campus fitted with window-strike prevention. One year, a woman donated funds ($20,000) to have one building fitted. The article below talks about initiatives, but it came too late for P3.
My heart is absolutely broken.
More Bird World news tomorrow. Chicks being ringed at Loch Arkaig as I write this.
Thank you to ‘PB’ for alerting me, to Suzanne Arnold Horning for heading up the FB group and chasing after the hawklets after fledge and informing us of all things Big Red and Arthur, and to Cornell for their streaming cam. Please, please fix all the windows!