peregrine

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• More than 6,000 captive-bred peregrine falcons were reintroduced between 1974 and 1997 in 34 states.

• Maryland and Virginia now have over 50 pairs of “successfully breeding” peregrine falcons, according to wildlife experts.

• For the first time in almost 70 years, a peregrine falcon chick has hatched and is learning to fly at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, part of a national comeback story for a species that had largely disappeared in the wild.

• What happens to the peregrine migrants isn’t just about peregrines—it’s a model for all of those birds.

• Some of those populations breed high in the Arctic tundra, and individual peregrines fly for thousands of miles and across multiple continents to nest on cliff banks along Arctic rivers.

• Hero Peregrine – Actress Cree Summer gave this name to her daughter, who joined sister Brave Littlewing.

• About a year ago, Peregrine Financial CEO Russell Wasendorf Sr. was found attempting to kill himself in his car.

• The boy was sent to a private school of a high character, and Sir Peregrine was sure that he had been so sent at his own advice.

• And with these views he returned home—while Peregrine Orme at Oxford was still addicted to the hunting of rats.

• Sir Peregrine himself at this time was an old man, having passed his seventieth year.

• Young timber also throve well about the place, and in this respect Sir was a careful landlord.