2006 - Midwest Peregrine Falcon Restoration Project

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2 All peregrines banded in the U.S. Midwest (ND, MN, WI, MI, SD, NE, IA, IL, IN, OH, KS, MO, KY) in 2006 wear a bicolored project band, black over green on the left leg. Wild-produced birds have a purple anodized USFWS band on the right leg; hacked birds have a gold anodized USFWS band on the right leg. In Canada (SE MB, NW ON), hacked birds receive a red band and wild-produced birds get a black band, in addition to a silver USFWS band. Project bands are intended to be readable in the field, given the right circumstances and appropriate optics (see article by Tordoff included in this report). Many of the black/green and black/red bands (from earlier years) have the upper or lower character (or both) tipped to the left on its side; these we show by using a star (*) to indicate the tipped-over letter or number, for example, *2/E or H/*4. It is essential to include the star because all combinations are in use (H/4, *H/4, H/*4, *H/*4 for example). It is also important to put all bands on right side up, to make them easier to read in the field. To avoid confusion, numerals take precedence over letters; that is, numerals 1 and 0 are used on the project color bands, letters I and O are not used. We cannot change names of localities in the peregrine database when the names of buildings or companies change. The original names are entered in the database in too many places. Incomplete corrections would confuse searches for data. The same goes for individual birds—once named and entered, the name sticks. Authorized users may download the contents of the database into an Excel spreadsheet. This is accomplished by clicking on the “submit data” link, then at the top of the banding information table, click on “Output birds for FileMaker "Peremain" import.” This will generate a transition file, which you should save. Then open this file with Excel, and select the delimited with comma’s option, click “finish”, and you will have the file in a spreadsheet format.
3 INTRODUCTION Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) egg-laying began in March in the southern Midwest and progressively later to the north. Known territorial pairs were reported at 210 compared to 197 in 2005, however, several sites, especially on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan were not reported on this year owing to access issues. Production of young was 435 compared to 421 in 2005. Table 1 is a nesting summary for nine years by state and province (sequence here and in the main list below is north tier of states first, west to east; second tier, etc., then NW Ontario and SE Manitoba). Table 1 TERRITORIAL PAIRS / YOUNG FLEDGED, 2006 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 N. Dakota -- -- 1/0 1/3 1/0 1/4 1/2 1/4 1/4 Minnesota 24/52 28/54 33/56 29/69 32/60 36/67 38/84 43/83 51/112 Wisconsin 11/33 13/36 15/39 19/53 19/50 20/63 20/55 27/59 27/65 Michigan 9/10 10/16 9/10 10/13 11/14 15/23 16/26 17/33 17/29 S. Dakota 1/0 1/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 Nebraska 1/5 1/5 1/0 1/3 1/3 2/2 2/3 2/2 2/8 Iowa 2/6 3/6 3/10 5/8 5/10 6/16 8/13 10/20 11/11 Illinois 5/13 8/11 9/23 9/21 11/19 10/23 14/32 13/29 11/30 Indiana 9/15 9/24 9/23 11/20 11/27 11/33 12/30 12/29 13/30 Ohio 11/17 12/13 16/27 14/36 15/34 16/31 16/54 22/57 21/60 Kansas 1/0 1/0 0/0 0/0 1/0 1/0 1/0 1/0 1/0 Missouri 4/11 4/11 4/5 5/7 6/9 6/13 6/11 3/8 5/9* Kentucky 1/1 2/3 3/5 3/4 4/7 4/7 4/12 4/11 8/8 Manitoba 3/4 2/5 2/4 2/1 2/1 2/0 2/4 3/7 4/5 Ontario 17/38 13/30 24/41 24/52 25/50 33/70 31/50 39/79 39/66** Totals 99/205 107/214 129/243 133/290 144/284 163/352 171/376 197/421 210/435*** *Does not include four hacked birds **Minimum count as some nest sites not visited a second time to confirm breeding success *** 65 unbanded birds included in this tally We point out again that yearly changes depend in part on arbitrary decisions about what constitutes a countable pair. Production of young per territorial pair was 2.0 in 2002, 2.2 in 2003, 2.2 in 2004, 2.1 in 2005, and 2.0 this year.
Page 1 and 2: MIDWEST PEREGRINE FALCON RESTORATIO
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Page 8 and 9: 4 Year Hacked Young Table 2 PEREGRI
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Page 12 and 13: 6. SP-Lock and Dam 1/Ford Parkway B
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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 40 and 41: 36 BLOOD SAMPLES We continued colle
Page 42 and 43: 38 Table 3. Wild Peregrines Banded
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52 Fledglings / successful nest Fig
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54 Percent of sex class 18 16 14 12
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56 SPECIAL ARTICLE READING PEREGRIN
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58 December light, with no optical
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