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Samantha Plencner holds an osprey chick at Busse Woods on June 12, 2024, in Rolling Meadows. Over the next couple of weeks, staff at the Forest Preserves of Cook County are banding, performing health checks, and recording data on more than a dozen osprey chicks scattered throughout forest preserve properties. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

Brannon Wittendberg guides the bucket lifting Melina Frezados up to an osprey nest in Busse Woods on June 12, 2024, in Rolling Meadows. Once at the nest, Frezados, a wildlife biologist specializing in wild bird research and conservation, will return two osprey chicks. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

A mini-fan cools down an osprey chick following its examination at Baker’s Lake Younghusband Prairie on June 12, 2024, in Barrington. Over the next couple of weeks, staff at the Forest Preserves of Cook County are banding, performing health care checks, and recording data on more than a dozen osprey chicks scattered throughout forest preserve properties. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

Tiny feathers fly into the air as Melina Frezados, left, and Samantha Plencner, right, check on an osprey chick at Busse Woods on June 12, 2024, in Rolling Meadows. Over the next couple of weeks, staff at the Forest Preserves of Cook County are banding, performing health checks, and recording data on more than a dozen osprey chicks scattered throughout forest preserve properties. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

A mother osprey returns to her chicks and nest after the chicks were briefly removed by staff at the Forest Preserves of Cook County, in Busse Woods on June 12, 2024, in Rolling Meadows. Wildlife biologists removed the chicks in order to band them, perform health-care checks, and collect data.  (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

Samantha Plencner secures an osprey chick before it gets a check-up at Baker’s Lake Younghusband Prairie on June 12, 2024, in Barrington. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

Alex Kaplan, left, sprays water into the beak of an osprey chick while Brannon Wittenberg holds it at Baker’s Lake Younghusband Prairie on June 12, 2024, in Barrington. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

Melina Frezados adjusts the band on an osprey chick's leg at Baker’s Lake Younghusband Prairie on June 12, 2024, in Barrington. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

Melina Frezados measures the beak of an osprey chick at Baker’s Lake Younghusband Prairie on June 12, 2024, in Barrington. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

Melina Frezados, a wildlife biologist specializing in wild bird research and conservation with the Forest Preserves of Cook County, returns an osprey chick to its nest in Busse Woods on June 12, 2024, in Rolling Meadows. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

An osprey chick is weighed by wildlife biologist Melina Frezados at Baker’s Lake Younghusband Prairie on June 12, 2024, in Barrington. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

The gate of a pick-up trucks is used as a make shift clinic for osprey chicks as Melina Frezados, Samantha Plencner, and Katie Baughman, examine, band, and record data at Baker’s Lake Younghusband Prairie on June 12, 2024, in Barrington. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

Samantha Plencner holds the legs of an osprey chick at Busse Woods on June 12, 2024, in Rolling Meadows. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

Flying with a freshly caught fish, an adult opsrey returns to its nest at Busse Woods on June 12, 2024, in Rolling Meadows. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)