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This weeks Feature is of the Wisconsin Falcon Watch website, the work they are doing and the progress they have made. By clicking the underlined link below you can gain a greater and more in-depth understanding of Wisconsin Falcon Watch and the Milwaukee Public Museum. It is a great website with detailed information on Peregrine Falcons in Wisconsin and updates on the project, including many photographs and a live 'Falcon-Cam'. Enjoy these beautiful and endangered Wisconsin Falcons.
Wisconsin Falcon Watch
The Peregrine Falcon recovery program in Wisconsin began in 1987 with the release of 14 captive-produced young peregrines in Milwaukee. This was followed up with additional releases of captive produced young in Madison, LaCrosse, Racine and Pleasant Prairie.
The first successful nesting for the recovery program took place high atop Milwaukee's First Wisconsin Center in 1988. This was followed up by a second nesting at the Edgewater Generating Station in Sheboygan in 1992. After years of struggle, the Peregrine Falcon is making a comeback in the state. Last year we had 11 active nest sites with 4 in the Milwaukee area, and additional nests in Green Bay, Manitowoc, Sheboygan, Pleasant Prairie, Alma and Genoa. All of these nests (and nest boxes) are located on man-made structures such as smoke stacks, buildings, grain elevators and bridges. Peregrines are adapting to our urban world and last year Wisconsin's 11 pairs produced a total of 38 young!
The ultimate hope for the recovery program in Wisconsin has always been to see peregrines returned to their historic cliff nests overlooking the Mississippi and Wisconsin Rivers and the Door peninsula. Although peregrines have been successfully nesting on smoke stacks along the Mississippi River in Alma and Genoa, last year for the first time it looked like peregrines may actually be returning to the historic cliffs above the river. Pairs of peregrines had been observed last spring at cliffs in Minnesota and at Fountain City, Nelson and Maiden Rock in Wisconsin. Hopefully some of these pairs will produce young and begin the process of restoring this historic nesting population.
Special thanks to the Milwaukee Public Museum and the Falcon Watch Website for the use of these pictures and text.
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