Here, the peregrine will scrape a small hollow in the loose soil, sand, gravel or dead vegetation on the cliff ledge and lay its eggs. Both male and female share incubation, but the female does most of it. Both parents protect the nest site, but the female is most aggressive, striking an intruder with her wings or gouging it with her talons. The young hatch after 28 to 29 days, with the first laid eggs hatching before the last ones. The small body of the newly hatched chick is wrapped in creamy white down and supported by oversized feet.
Feathers appear through the down at about eighteen days.
The young are fed fresh meat from the parent's bill. At three weeks, they practice wing-flapping and soon after are left alone in the nest, eventually flying 35 to 42 days after hatching. After leaving the nest, the young remain in the area, still dependent on their parents for two months or more. Rarely far apart, the pair mate for life. However, if one dies the survivor quickly obtains another mate.