This article is reprinted without illustrations from LORE magazine, a benefit of museum membership. MPM Inc. holds copyright to LORE magazine and to this posting. In 1988, history was made in Milwaukee when two young Peregrine Falcons happened to meet, find our nest box high atop the First Wisconsin Center and raise two young. Perhaps that doesn't sound so impressive.
Birds find nest boxes and have young every year.
During the summer of 1987, fourteen young captive produced Peregrines were released from this very same nest box and hopes were that some of the young would return to nest. But in March of 1988, two juvenile Peregrines from parts unknown settled into the city. We watched them as they hunted the city streets and tried in vain to get band numbers. Well, patience eventually paid off and after weeks of trying, we were finally able to crawl along the 41st floor ledge and get close enough to read the bands. Then, several days later and after hours of waiting, he moved and stretched his leg.