For the second year in a row, peregrine falcon chicks have successfully fledged at Harpers Ferry National Historic Park. Before 2021, there hadn’t been a successful hatchling and fledgling in the park since the early 1950s.
Peregrine falcons hadn’t been at the park in West Virginia for much of the past 70 years.
This spring, the same male falcon mated with a different female falcon, and they had four chicks, of which three survived. The three chicks have Peregrine falcons are considered one of the fastest-flying birds in the world and reach speeds of up to 240 mph when they dive or “stoop” to hunt, park experts said.
More than 6,000 captive-bred peregrine falcons were reintroduced in 34 states between 1974 and 1997. Maryland and Virginia now have more than 50 pairs of “successfully breeding” peregrine falcons, according to wildlife experts. Female peregrine falcons typically lay a “clutch of three to five eggs each spring,” park officials said, and the “pair share incubation duties which last about 33 days.” At about 12 weeks of age, juveniles start to “hunt and care for themselves,” Taber said.
NPS officials said at the Harpers Ferry park that they rely heavily on volunteers, who were the first to spot the trio of fledglings and help in observations about the falcons’ “behaviors, mating, hatching and feeding.”
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