2006 - Midwest Peregrine Falcon Restoration Project

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36 BLOOD SAMPLES We continued collecting blood in 2006 from all wild young banded in the U.S., and from whatever wild breeders were handled. The goal is to provide the research base for measuring inbreeding, outbreeding, genetic variation, changes in occupancy of territories, dispersal of adults and young, success of the different genetic stocks introduced, development of genetic structure in the new Midwestern population, and other topics yet to be determined. The peregrine blood samples collected over the years uniquely represent the history of the Midwest population. Only a handful of eggs, study skins and skeletons, acquired randomly, have been preserved, in contrast to the nearly full coverage of blood samples saved. Sophisticated as current techniques of blood analysis may seem today, they will be considered primitive in a few years. The blood specimens are in the permanent tissue collections at the Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota, where they are available for study now and in the future. We need to continue to try to: PLANS FOR THE FUTURE -Identify all breeders. -Band all wild young produced -Collect blood from all young and any adults handled -Appropriately manage pairs nesting on man-made structures -Maintain good working relationships with building owners and personnel responsible for public structures used as nest site -Monitor the newly-established peregrines on the river cliffs and on suitable cliffs elsewhere in the region -Collect, coordinate, and circulate information among Midwest peregrine workers through reports and regular informal contacts -Develop permanent names and obtain accurate lat/long information for each nesting site ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Midwest Peregrine Project is a cooperative effort involving many people and organizations. The University of Minnesota provides the overall coordination of the project through Pat Redig and Jane Goggin of The Raptor Center with continuing advice, encouragement and unbounded enthusiasm from Bud Tordoff of the Bell Museum of Natural History and the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior. We are able to maintain our database on peregrines, which is the basis of the various reports you receive, through the enthusiastic cooperation of people interested in peregrines in the 13 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces in our area. The database is available online to anyone interested at Richard Peifer, Kyle Hammond, and Bruce Fall make the online database possible. We thank all of you who have sent us information. We are grateful to those who read parts of an early draft of this report for help in detecting errors and omissions. Please let us know about mistakes that were missed.
37 Support for the Minnesota part of the effort is provided by: 3M BCED Minnesota CB Richard Ellis City Center Building Management Colonnade Building Management Farm Credit Leasing Lock and Dam 1 Management and Staff Mayo Clinic Mayo Clinic Volunteer Organization Midwest Plaza Building Management Minneapolis City Hall Staff Minnesota DNR Nongame Wildlife Program Minnesota DNR Parks and Recreation Minnesota Department of Transportation (MN DOT) Minnesota Falconers Association Minnesota Power and Light Company North Central Life (recently re-named Bremer building) Building Management Northern States Power Company (Xcel Energy) Northwest Airlines Norwest Financial Center Building Management (now Wells Fargo) Raptor Resource Project Riverside Plaza Building Management St. Paul Department of Public Works The Raptor Center, University of Minnesota U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service U. S. Forest Service Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center Each cooperating state or province has, in addition, its own list of cooperators. BREEDERS SUPPLYING PEREGRINES FOR 2006 RELEASES Bruce Haak provided four birds for release at New Madrid Power Plant, Missouri.
Page 1 and 2: MIDWEST PEREGRINE FALCON RESTORATIO
Page 3: Contents iii Midwest Peregrine Falc
Page 6 and 7: 2 All peregrines banded in the U.S.
Page 8 and 9: 4 Year Hacked Young Table 2 PEREGRI
Page 10 and 11: 6 • Roosevelt R/*4 (One Summit Sq
Page 12 and 13: 6. SP-Lock and Dam 1/Ford Parkway B
Page 14 and 15: 10 hatched and fledged, one female
Page 16 and 17: was the same pair of birds on terri
Page 18 and 19: paired bigamously with three-year-o
Page 20 and 21: laid, one disappeared, two of the r
Page 22 and 23: 18 73. LE-Maassen Bluff, two miles
Page 24 and 25: 20 92. LE-Macomb County Building, M
Page 26 and 27: 22 108. NB-I-80 Bridge, Quad Cities
Page 28 and 29: 24 9 sites and 30 checks fledged fr
Page 30 and 31: 26 131. SP-Inland Steel (aka Mittal
Page 32 and 33: eleven-year-old male Bandit b/r 3/*
Page 34 and 35: 30 160. SP-Hwy 255 Jefferson Barrac
Page 36 and 37: 32 ONTARIO Brian Ratcliff, Thunder
Page 38 and 39: 34 197. NB-International Bridge, Sa
Page 42 and 43: 38 Table 3. Wild Peregrines Banded
Page 44 and 45: SITE BAND NO. COLOR BAND SEX Michig
Page 46 and 47: SITE BAND NO. COLOR BAND SEX Minnes
Page 48 and 49: SITE BAND NO. COLOR BAND SEX Ohio I
Page 50 and 51: SITE BAND NO. COLOR BAND SEX Wiscon
Page 52 and 53: 48 Figure 1. Symbols depict non-bre
Page 54 and 55: 50 Figure 4 500 450 400 350 300 250
Page 56 and 57: 52 Fledglings / successful nest Fig
Page 58 and 59: 54 Percent of sex class 18 16 14 12
Page 60 and 61: 56 SPECIAL ARTICLE READING PEREGRIN
Page 62: 58 December light, with no optical

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