[MDOsprey] Peregrine Falcon to be removed from Endangered Species List!

Tyler Bell (Bell@acnatsci.org)
Fri, 20 Aug 1999 10:28:06 -0400


This was posted on Birdchat. It's probably in Friday's Post.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The world's fastest bird, once driven to the brink of
extinction in the U.S. by now-banned pesticides,  is soaring off the
endangered species list. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt planned to
remove the peregrine falcon from the endangered list Friday in a
ceremony at a Boise, Idaho, center for breeding birds of prey. At the
bird's low point in 1970, only 39 breeding pairs existed in the
continental U.S. - all west of the Mississippi, said Jeff Cilek of The
Peregrine Fund. Now, the  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates more
than 1,650 breeding pairs of peregrines live in North America.


Good Birding!
Tyler Bell
mailto:bell@acnatsci.org
California, MD
http://www.audubon.org/chapter/md/smas/