Other Peregrine Projects > USA Peregrines
UT / Salt Lake City - 2008-2013
Alison:
I think these chicks are particularly well fed. During a feeding earlier, both chicks kept wandering off and then wandering back to have a little more food.
kittenface:
Lunch is being served
BigBird:
I've been watching these guys for about 20 minutes now, they are sprawled out, i guess trying to stay cool... and Mom or Dad is standing behind them just watching over them.... it's cute! :)
Kinderchick:
Hmmm. Thanks! Very interesting info. I thought Peregrines were considered and designated an endangered species throughout North America. Wonder if George Bush had anything to do with this?! ;) (LOL)
The Peregrine Chick:
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--- Quote ---now that the species has been de-listed.
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TPC, What do you mean by this?
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A few years ago, the US Government decided that peregrines in the US had recovered sufficiently that they no longer needed protection and the endangered species designation. So the peregrine was delisted, rather than downlisted - that is it went from endangered to be right off the species-at-risk list with one piece of legislation. The individual states may protect them as wildlife and may have their own species-at-risk designations, but nationally they are no longer a species of concern.
In Canada at about the same time, nationally the species was downlisted by one category because across the country there had been great increases generally though some of the regional recovery targets hadn't been met. Because the federal government transferred responsibility for wildlife (along with other natural resources) to the provinces many decades ago, the provinces are still able to designate a species as at risk. In Manitoba, because we only have two confirmed breeding pairs, they are still designated as endangered in the province. Reinforcing this designation is that there used to be peregrines nesting in all the major prairie cities - Edmonton, Calgary (Red Deer too I think), Regina, Saskatoon, Moose Jaw, Brandon and Winnipeg. Except for last year (and haven't heard anything to the contrary for this year) there have been peregrines nesting in Saskatchewan in a decade or more - they had more pairs than we did, yet they are all gone, without protection and monitoring here, the same could happen here. So the peregrine continues to be endangered in Manitoba.
That help?
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