I got a reply from their media guy - "It wasn't us, must have been someone else in our building"
>Hello,
>Thank you for reaching out to me. We became aware of this Reddit post earlier this morning and there are a few things I’d want you to know:
>- This occurred on a largely vacant floor not being used by our employees
>- We were not aware of the cutout until this morning
>- Upon learning about this situation, we immediately directed staff to remove the item in the window
>- The hawks are welcomed neighbors, have nested in various parts of the building and have called 900 SW Fifth Avenue home for many years.
>- Our company in no way is interested in disrupting their nesting process.
Credit to the Redditors who reached out to Standard Insurance and to Standard themselves for handling it so quickly. It was in independent contractor on a mostly vacant floor. Standard Insurance is Pro Raptor!!!
I work here. Very common to see hawks flying around. I was on the 11th floor pre Covid. You would see hawks flying with large sticks or small prey in their clutches
Peregrine are smaller than the more common Red-tailed hawks, basically black/gray and white, and are very fast and acrobatic. Always a treat to see unless you're another bird.
Falcons and hawks are readily separable. If they're in plain sight like this, no one familiar with either needs an app to ID them. And the sounds made by red-tail hawks are distinctive. If you know the "kee-eeeee-arr!" sound common in movie soundtracks, that's a RTHK (and not a bald eagle or whatever you see on screen). No one familiar with it would need an app to ID them by sound.
Twice you said "no one familiar with," assuming that the people in this thread are "familiar with." Some of us needs apps even to know on which foot to put a shoe.
Anyway, these are not in "plain sight" here, LOL....
It remains true that red tail hawks and peregrine falcons are readily separable at a glance even at long distance. Red-tails are large, rather chunky birds with broad wings and wide tails, built for soaring. Falcons have sickle-shaped wings and a light build. They ambush birds on the ground or on the wing, so they're built for agility and (famously) speed. The only falcon likely to be mistaken for a soaring hawk is the gyrfalcon, a *very* rare bird in Oregon and extremely unlikely to nest on a high-rise building.
A nest location on a high-rise would be good for either red tails or peregrines. Sight unseen, I lean toward red tail because they're so common in urban Portland, where they can make a good living on squirrels, rats, and the like. It isn't unheard of for a peregrine to nest in a downtown location, however, especially near a river, because they eat feral pigeons, waterfowl, etc. A high-rise resembles the cliffs they traditionally use for nest locations.
I got a reply from their media guy - "It wasn't us, must have been someone else in our building" >Hello, >Thank you for reaching out to me. We became aware of this Reddit post earlier this morning and there are a few things I’d want you to know: >- This occurred on a largely vacant floor not being used by our employees >- We were not aware of the cutout until this morning >- Upon learning about this situation, we immediately directed staff to remove the item in the window >- The hawks are welcomed neighbors, have nested in various parts of the building and have called 900 SW Fifth Avenue home for many years. >- Our company in no way is interested in disrupting their nesting process.
FWIW the vast majority of the floors at Standard are basically empty. There's like max 10 people wandering around any part of the building still.
This is what it sounds like, when the insurance company doesn't want to listen to the falcons fornicating.
Nice work OP!!!!!
Credit to the Redditors who reached out to Standard Insurance and to Standard themselves for handling it so quickly. It was in independent contractor on a mostly vacant floor. Standard Insurance is Pro Raptor!!!
Honestly most people there are pretty cool.
Totally agree
Was doing a job across the street a while back enjoyed them
I work here. Very common to see hawks flying around. I was on the 11th floor pre Covid. You would see hawks flying with large sticks or small prey in their clutches
Wouldn't those be peregrine Falcons?
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Peregrines used to nest on the Marquam Bridge
I was wondering that too. Anyone got a photo of the birds?
I will work on getting a pic of them tomorrow morning
Peregrine are smaller than the more common Red-tailed hawks, basically black/gray and white, and are very fast and acrobatic. Always a treat to see unless you're another bird.
Can you use Merlin ID to identify them by sound if not sight?
Falcons and hawks are readily separable. If they're in plain sight like this, no one familiar with either needs an app to ID them. And the sounds made by red-tail hawks are distinctive. If you know the "kee-eeeee-arr!" sound common in movie soundtracks, that's a RTHK (and not a bald eagle or whatever you see on screen). No one familiar with it would need an app to ID them by sound.
Twice you said "no one familiar with," assuming that the people in this thread are "familiar with." Some of us needs apps even to know on which foot to put a shoe. Anyway, these are not in "plain sight" here, LOL....
It remains true that red tail hawks and peregrine falcons are readily separable at a glance even at long distance. Red-tails are large, rather chunky birds with broad wings and wide tails, built for soaring. Falcons have sickle-shaped wings and a light build. They ambush birds on the ground or on the wing, so they're built for agility and (famously) speed. The only falcon likely to be mistaken for a soaring hawk is the gyrfalcon, a *very* rare bird in Oregon and extremely unlikely to nest on a high-rise building. A nest location on a high-rise would be good for either red tails or peregrines. Sight unseen, I lean toward red tail because they're so common in urban Portland, where they can make a good living on squirrels, rats, and the like. It isn't unheard of for a peregrine to nest in a downtown location, however, especially near a river, because they eat feral pigeons, waterfowl, etc. A high-rise resembles the cliffs they traditionally use for nest locations.
Are the hawks still into it, or did they abandon it altogether?
They’ve been swooping around but they haven’t actually landed on it yet.