| Usually early migrants, the first ouzel's song echoes round the hills and the first birds fall prey to merlins and peregrines. |
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| We are regaled with tales of peregrines hovering over the groundlings at the Globe theatre, peregrines nesting atop the Battersea Power Station. |
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| One or two gritstone quarries provide important nesting sites for peregrines and ravens. |
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| I've owned an American kestrel and a Harris hawk, and I exercised the peregrines at the sanctuary. |
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| Density of the breeding population did not affect dispersal distance of peregrines. |
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| By 1970, fewer than 40 breeding pairs of peregrines were known and the bald eagle seemed set to follow. |
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| During this time, we collected 153 eggs, 87 from American peregrines and 66 from Arctic peregrines. |
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| Montreal once had a famous family of peregrines living on the Sun Life building. |
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| In spring, peregrines often nest near The Main Area or Red Slab and these buttresses should be avoided at this time. |
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| Nighthawks have been on a steady decline in the last few decades and part of me wondered if peregrines being reintroduced into metro areas was a contributing factor? |
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| Boasting buzzards, merlins, kestrels, peregrines, and ospreys, the county has ten of a total UK species of 15-making it one of the nation's key habitats. |
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| As soon as Jeff and I discovered that, the conversation quickly left talk of ivory-bills and on to the exciting flights of peregrines and Cooper's hawks. |
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| The fastest bird in the world and the largest native hawk in the UK, peregrines continue to suffer illegal human persecution despite their protected status. |
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| The main reason for taking wild peregrines at this point is to maintain healthy genetic diversity in the breeding lines. |
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| If they miss the initial strike, peregrines will chase their prey in a twisting flight. |
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| Large congregations of migrants, especially species that gather in the open like shorebirds, can be quite attractive to hunting peregrines. |
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| In addition, peregrines have been documented preying on chicks in nests, from birds such as kittiwakes. |
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| The Welsh Kite Trust is now switching the focus of its conservation work towards other raptors, such as honey buzzards, peregrines, merlins, hobbies and kestrels. |
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| When reintroductions have been attempted for peregrines, the most serious impediments were these two owls routinely picking off nestlings, fledglings and adults by night. |
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| Before the demise of most European peregrines, a large population of peregrines in central and western Europe used the disused nests of other large birds. |
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| Peregrines are top predators and can act as indicators of the quality of the food chain and of the surrounding environment. |
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| Peregrines are indigenous birds, and unfortunately they are creophagous. |
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| Gamekeepers on some sporting estates still kill Peregrines, along with other raptors, and destroy their nests, because they cannot tolerate the predation on game birds. |
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| Prior to the sharp decline of Peregrines from the raptor's indigenous habitat, the birds nested mainly on steep cliffs, which seems like a very wild bird-like thing to do. |
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