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[semperfiona]

Loading my car with Girl Scout cookies this morning, I heard something angrily squawking at me. I looked around, and I spotted this little guy about 20 feet above me in the Bradford pear tree, tearing pieces off what appeared to be a pigeon corpse. That's the rarest animal I've ever seen in my citified yard. Makes a change from bunnies and squirrels, ne? Of course, I took a cellphone picture, but it's crap. Too far away to see anything. The pic at right is swiped from National Geographic (the link goes to their original).

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I remember when the first peregrines were moved into downtown St. Louis

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

They put up nests for I forget how many pairs of them on tall buildings downtown, including the Shell building. I recall hearing that the city makes a good habitat for peregrines, oddly enough, and that pigeons are great food for them! I've seen one myself in Forest Park. They're really pretty.

Re: I remember when the first peregrines were moved into downtown St. Louis

[lightning-rose.livejournal.com]

Pigeons and peregrines both nest on cliffs, so they adapt well to downtown urban environments.