2006 - Midwest Peregrine Falcon Restoration Project

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NORTH DAKOTA
1. SP-Community First Bank, Fargo, Cass County, North Dakota. Wick Corwin reports that
five-year-old female Frieda b/g 24/A, here for the fifth year, paired again with nine-year-old male
Dakota Ace b/r *H/D, here for the seventh year. Four eggs were laid in the box, all hatched, and four
young fledged, three males and one female. Two of the young were killed shortly after fledging, in
separate situations. One, Maris b/g W/37 flew into a window. Another, Prairie Rose b/g *H/*W was
found dead along railroad tracks on July 3 rd a short distance from the nest site. First year nesting
attempted: 2000; total young produced: 17.
MINNESOTA
2. SP-Colonnade, Hwy. 100 and I-394, Golden Valley, Hennepin County, Minnesota. Bud
Tordoff and Mischelle Johnson report that a new male, six-year-old Malik b/g 5/*9 (seen in early
April at the Xcel Energy Riverside site by Bob Anderson), fledged in 2000 from North Central Life
in St. Paul, paired with three-year-old Loree b/g 49/E (NSP Monticello 2003), here for the second
year. Four eggs were laid in an open gravel tray, all hatched and four young fledged, three males and
one female. Malik had previously nested for three seasons at the NSP Riverside Plant in
Minneapolis. Malik replaced 16 year-old Kato 31T, who nested here for 14 seasons and sired 43
young, perhaps the most fledged young yet recorded for a wild male peregrine. Kato fledged wild in
St. Paul, MN, and was found severely injured in Minneapolis on November 29, 2005 and was
euthanized. First year nesting attempted: 1991; total young produced: 47.
3. SP-Multifoods Tower (aka City Center), Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. The
male here for his second season is three-year-old Younger b/g 04/N, fledged in 2003 at Maiden Rock,
Wisconsin, the second male from this cliff site to nest at Multifoods Tower. The female at this site is
once again an unbanded female, most likely the same female here since 2003 from photograph
identification. Four eggs were laid and four young fledged, all males. One young male died after
colliding with a building shortly after fledging. First year nesting attempted: 1987; total young
produced: 39
4. SP-City Hall, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. An adult female peregrine
wearing only a silver USFWS band on her left leg (1807-348), origin unknown, was first reported at
this site in 2000. She once again was paired with three-year-old Bor b/g 03/N, fledged in 2003 at
NSP Monticello, Minnesota. The pair, closely watched by Barbara Hendrickson, nested again in a
cubbyhole on the east side of the 5th Street Tower of the century old City Hall. Four eggs were laid,
one hatched and one female fledged. First year nesting attempted: 2000; total young produced: 7.
5. SP-Riverside Plaza/I-94 Mississippi River Bridge, Minneapolis, Hennepin County,
Minnesota. Twelve-year-old Phoebe, after nesting six years on the river bridge, moved in 2004 a
mile to a box at Riverside Plaza, where she first attempted to nest in 1997. She paired for the third
year with six-year-old Rocket b/g L/M. Three eggs were laid, all hatched, and three young fledged,
two males and a female. Phoebe is an escaped falconry bird from Kansas in 1994 and is still
identifiable by her breeder band and leather anklet. Rocket fledged in 2000 from a smokestack at
NSP Riverside, Minneapolis, Minnesota. A male fledgling from the Riverside nest was found dead
in a new nest box installed at a plant in Elk River MN in mid-September. Riverside is one of seven
sites monitored in the state as part of the federal monitoring program for Peregrine Falcons. First
year nesting attempted: 1997; total young produced: 11.