Peregrine Falcon breeding is Phillip Trefry’s career (pictured above) Breeding dozens of chicks and caging some younger guys not ready to release to the wild quite yet. He runs his business at his ranch in rural Alberta. He is, more importantly, a lifelong supporter of conservation practices towards the proliferation of Peregrine Falcons numbers in Canada as edified from an interview on CBC News: The National (2018) recognizing the “thanks in large part the one Alberta man,” Philip Trefry, retrieved from YouTube. (2020).
DDT use as a pesticide in the 1960s pushed the three only species of Peregrine Falcons in North America to almost virtual extinction in that same decade. Peregrine Falcons being a “Top of the Food Chain” bird eat meat only, living out the majority of their lives being an alpha of birds; this is why DDT puzzled scientists so much because DDT was used on the ground. However, peregrine falcons lived in the air and were still. So how could these birds be died without any direct exposure to this at the time thought of as a safe chemical but surely wasn’t? ,. Animals killed eventually by DDT, will go about and when the Falcon finally gets to it, eat it, a and digests the DDT will make have made its way through the ingestion of prey by a predator, who DDT still is intact. In contrast, the animal becomes quite an easy meal.
Peregrine Falcons, which according to Trefry, known for its tremendous speed, history of working with people, wants people to realize they are a very “well-manned” bird and simply the Top-Gun of all birds, about a movie starring Brad Pitt.
CBC News: The National(2018). Canada’s falcon population back from brink of extinction from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOe1G54tbq0
Images: Afraf Fujikan
EPAC Logo: Photo taken July 2016. (courtesy Marlis Butcher, http://www.canadianparkbagger.com).
(Corel Professional Photos). Peregrine falcon.(© Chris Hill/Dreamstime).
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