As we were cleaning the hack box today, we thought you’d enjoy seeing and hearing from the young peregrines inside it. These birds are from Virgina’s James River Reserve Fleet (4 birds) and Watts Island (1 bird). They were placed in the box on Monday May 17 and are growing up fast! The [...]
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2009 New River Gorge Peregrine Falcon Restoration Project Report now available
January 16th, 2010 by TRAC
We have posted our final report for the 2009 Peregrine Falcon Restoration Project. To download a copy go to http://tracwv.org/restoration.html and click on the link for a free full color PDF copy. The 2009 hack out at Grandview Park was a wonderful success with all 17 chicks fledged! Everyone who has supported this effort should [...]
7/23/09 Peregrines dispersing
July 23rd, 2009 by TRAC
The young peregrines are beginning to disperse. A group of 10 consisting mainly of members of the second release group with two add-ons each from both the first and third groups set out on their own as of 7/10/09. A few other stragglers have shown up here and there, so we think that a few [...]
Peregrine Restoration Project Update 7-2-09
July 2nd, 2009 by TRAC
We passed a milestone yesterday. All peregrines brought to the Gorge this season to be released have all stayed in the area for at least 14 days! There were three age groups that were released separately from each other; one on 6/2/09, one on 6/13 and the final group on 6/18. With the final group [...]
6-4-09 PEFA update
June 5th, 2009 by TRAC
6-4-09 Looking at my short hand title, I can see that there may be folks who want to know what PEFA means, and why is it included in the peregrine updates? PEFA is the 4 alpha code that bird banders and others refer to PEregrine FAlcons in notes and some other documentation. I will probably [...]
Nest site near New River Gorge Bridge is gone
June 4th, 2009 by TRAC
6/3/09 Sad news. The nest site established by the 2007 male yellow/black and the unbanded female is no more. Everything seemed to be going well all the way through 5/19/09 and both parents were bringing food into the crevice located below the double hack boxes in the Cirque along the Endless Wall, but after that, [...]
Hacksite update 6/3/09
June 4th, 2009 by TRAC
Not much to report of the peregrines released yesterday. Purple/pink band, a female from the Ben Harrison Bridge in Hopewell, VA was spotted walking around in front and under hack box 2. She hung out at that site for a while, visiting with the inhabitants of the box and exploring the area. We heard other [...]
First set of young peregrines released into NRG 6/2/09
June 4th, 2009 by TRAC
The first set of young peregrines for the 2009 New River Gorge Peregrine Restoration Project were released on Tuesday, June 2nd from their hack box located in the Grandview section of the Park. Six young peregrines hopped out of their hack box door, feasted on the many quail carcasses we’d spread around right in front [...]
Update for the week ending 5/16/09: peregrines!
May 15th, 2009 by TRAC
Sorry for the long silence on TRAC updates – we got really, really, frantically busy in the interim. A pair of peregines showed up at the hacksite near the NRG Bridge and set up a nest site right under our hack boxes! This meant that we couldn’t use the site for hacking this year and [...]
Feb 28, 2009: Call for observers in WV
March 11th, 2009 by TRAC
Well, it’s a BIT early for peregrine falcon territory displays, but evidence is accumulating for an early wild bird breeding season this year. Keep an eye out, and if you can, report back the same day. It’d help us a lot. Any bands seen or (ha!) satellite transmitters you see (number off the transmitter would [...]
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March 9th, 2009 by TRAC
3-3-09 Monitoring for peregrine falcon nesting behavior near the hack location and at the New River Gorge Bridge will begin on Thursday, March 5th and continue through the rest of the month and into the beginning of April. We hope to accumulate at least 50 hours intermittent monitoring over that time.
2-28-09: One of the peregrines [...]
New River Gorge Peregrine Restoration Project general info
March 9th, 2009 by TRAC
The New River Gorge Peregrine Restoration Project began in 2006 as a joint effort by The Center for Conservation of Biology at the College of William and Mary, theNew River Gorge National River (National Park Service), the WV Division of Natural Resources’ (“WV DNR”)Wildlife Diversity Program and Three Rivers Avian Center (“TRAC”). The [...]