2006 - Midwest Peregrine Falcon Restoration Project

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March 9, 2007
MIDWEST PEREGRINE FALCON RESTORATION, 2006 REPORT
Patrick T. Redig,* John S. Castrale** and Jane A. Goggin*
*Raptor Center **Indiana Div. Fish & Wildlife
Univ. of Minnesota 562 DNR Road
1920 Fitch Ave. Mitchell IN 47446
St. Paul MN 55108 (812)849-4586
(612)624-9790
redig001@umn.edu jcastrale@dnr.in.gov
goggi001@umn.edu
MIDWEST PEREGRINE FALCON WEBSITE
A peregrine website for the Midwest is open at the University of Minnesota
. Richard Peifer, Mark Decker, Bruce Fall, and Kyle Hammond from
the University’s Biology Program developed the web site. Peifer designed the website, Decker and
Hammond adapted the database to the website and made it searchable, and Fall designed the database
at its start in 1992. In addition to general information about the peregrine program, the site presents
the Midwest peregrine database in a searchable format, making it useful for research as well as for
locating specific records or groups of records.
Many features were added to the database during 2006. The additional refinement and
programming was done by the partnership of Rick Peifer and Kyle Hammond, IT specialist for the
Biology Program. The first new element was a temporary database that can be accessed by
authorized individuals allowing them to submit data. When fully tested and operational, this feature
will permit direct data entry. Once the entire dataset for a season has been collected, it will be
checked for errors, and then added permanently to the main database. The second element was
addition of exact GPS lat/long coordinates for each site, a work still in progress. This function in the
database has been linked to Google Maps, allowing operators to obtain actual 3D views of peregrine
nest sites. The third element is a section of the database where detailed reports submitted by state and
area coordinators will be posted in toto as received. In these are contained more detailed information
than what is summarized in this report along with many excellent photographs taken at the various
sites.
BACKGROUND
Redig assumed the role of overall coordinator of Midwest peregrine work in 2006,
coordinating the maintenance of the database, and preparing the annual report, including the narrative
and Tables 1 and 2. Portions of the report accounts were provided by individual state coordinators
and were edited by Tordoff and he also updated the lists of most productive females and males. Jane
Goggin and Richard Goggin prepared Tables 3 and 4, handled the distribution of bands, banding
reports from the field, and blood sampling supplies, and, with Redig and Peifer managed printing and
circulation of this report. John Castrale prepared Figures 1 through 15, based on his separate
database, and performed meticulous editing of the script and error-checking of the data. Jim
Fitzpatrick, Carpenter Nature Center, holds the master federal banding permit under which we work.