MEXICO -- While catching some sun and watching birds under his friend's feeders on Tuesday, Mark Gaudet got the thrill of his life. He believes he saw a peregrine falcon dive on a robin near where he sat on a picnic table in the yard of his friend, Steven Santos, at 43 Osgood Ave.
HARRISBURG, Pa., May 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Environmental Protection and Game Commission today hosted a Peregrine falcon banding event to help students learn about efforts to restore the species. Public interest in the resurgence of Peregrine falcons continues to grow," DEP Secretary Mike Krancer said. "With a coded identification band, wildlife officials and enthusiasts everywhere will be able to use our website to monitor the falcon's activities and development.
The peregrine falcon is one of the world's fastest birds, power- diving after its prey at upwards of 200 mph. Incredibly, two peregrines -- usually birds of wild terrain -- appear to have taken up residence in downtown Yakima. Their "cliff?" The Larson Building. Its food? Pigeons, apparently. How to recognize one: Among raptors, falcons have the most pointy wings, and of this area's five species, the peregrines -- built for great speed -- are the most pointy-winged. The peregrine is slightly bigger than a pigeon in length and wingspan and also has a distinctive "helmet," a dark pattern on the top of its head extending down through its eyes. Adults are slate blue on their upper parts, off-white below. Young birds are dark brown above and streaked below, but already sport the distinctive...
During the afternoon of Oct. 30, I was driving through cropland between Ephrata and New Holland. I was there to watch the extensive fields, most of which were harvested to the ground, in hopes of seeing flocks of water pipits, a sparrowlike, sparrow-sized bird species that nests in the Arctic tundra and winters in open areas largely devoid of vegetation in the Lower 48. I knew they were somewhere in local farmland to feed on tiny invertebrates on the bare, or nearly so, soil because many hundreds of them annually stop here at this time to rest and feed as they migrate south.
FARMINGTON -- A program on peregrine falcon recovery in Maine will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 14, in Room C23 of Roberts Learning Center at the University of Maine at Farmington. Sponsored by the Western Maine Audubon Society, the program is free and open to the public.
Dorothy is a mom again. The 14-year-old peregrine falcon, who has become an Internet darling on the National Aviary's FalconCam, has laid her first egg of the year on a ledge at the Cathedral of Learning.
Dorothy, the 14-year-old peregrine falcon that has become an Internet darling on the National Aviary's FalconCam, laid her first egg of the year on a ledge at the Cathedral of Learning in Oakland. The bird laid the marble-sized egg Sunday. Last year, she laid five eggs.
rsteelhammer@wvgazette.com FAYETTEVILLE - All 24 peregrine falcon nestlings released in the New River Gorge National River this year have survived at least long enough to learn to fly and hunt in the 53-mile-long National Park Service preserve.
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