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Peregrine Falcon (18)
JennHen
![Silver Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 19 W: 0 N: 111]](http://i1.treknature.com/misc/s-n-g.gif) (429) | Agricultural and industrial use of pesticides has caused a worldwide decline of peregrine falcons. Pesticide use is closely regulated in Canada and the U.S. but not in Latin America where peregrines winter.
Pesticide residues remain in the environment for many years. They're picked up by a variety of animals, then passed on up the food chain to birds of prey. The residues collect in the birds' fat and eventually interfere with reproduction, causing thin eggshells and dead embryos.
It is illegal to kill or disturb peregrine falcons or their nesting areas in Canada and the U.S.
This beauty is another that resides at the Rocky Mountain Raptor Center and serves as one of their permanently-disabled education raptors. Photo taken inside a large wooden-slatted flight room (you can see the slatted light reflected in his eye). I zoomed in close because he was perched on his handler's gloved hand, and there was distracting BG. |
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