Falcons Leave the Big City

Today, peregrine falcons nest on skyscrapers and smokestacks in citiesall around the Great Lakes. It’s the result of a successful effort tobring the birds back from the brink of extinction, after they werenearly wiped out by the insecticide DDT. Peregrines still have notreturned to all their old wild habitat, but that’s starting to change.This summer … Continue reading Falcons Leave the Big City