Society for the Wild Animals “Falcon” is a group of passionates interested in protection of nature, especially the Peregrine Falcon. We are a group of falconers, hunters, ornithologists, foresters, specialists and volunteers. We cooperate with other organisations in Council for Peregrine Restitution in Poland. Our Society is responsible for few main areas of the Programme – monitoring, ringing, installation of nests, international cooperation and reintroduction in forests. Other organisations in the Council concentrate on breeding and reintroduction.

The story of Peregrine falcon is worldwide known. Its situation in Poland was much worse. Poland (together with East-North Germany , Belarus and Central Russia) had a unique tree-nesting population. This population was extinct in 60-s. Situation of Peregrine in Europe has improved, thanks to ban on DDT use and numerous reintroduction projects. In some countries its population is now even higher than before crisis. There was a huge change in the ecotypes during last 50 years. We have now a new population of Peregrines nesting in cities, which still has to be better studied.

In Poland we started our Peregrine project in mid 80-ies. From the beginning our main aim is restoration of tree-nesting Peregrine. Second aim is Peregrine itself. We started reintroduction in 1990. Since that we released ca. 300 eyasses, most of them in forests. In 1998 we had our first wild nest – in Warsaw. Now we know ca 12 nests of Peregrines – 2 in mountains, the rest in cities.

We still did not achieve our main aim – we do not know any tree-nesting Peregrines in Poland. On the other hand there are already good news form Germany, which shows that our approach is correct – introducing as many birds as possible in the same area. We had few possible nesting cases but so far we had not resources to find a nest before end of nesting season. Our Programme for Peregrine now consists of few main activities:

• breeding
• reintroduction – we reintroduce Peregrines in forests, still working on our main aim
• monitoring of current Peregrine population, checking signals about presence of Peregrines during breeding season
• installing artificial nests in places where Peregrines were observed –in forests, in cities and in mountains – to help them finding nests and to preserve the nests form other raptors
• ringing all young Peregrines with appropriate rings – coloured ornithological rings and observatory rings.
• exchange of information about Peregrines rings with other European countries.
• education about Peregrine

Our Society has increasing tasks. We still rely first on volunteers work, but we have to face increasing costs of monitoring. Monitoring is connected with costs of travelling to check the possible nesting territories, installing nests, ringing birds. We started in 1998 from a single nest in Warsaw, now we have ca 12 nest in the whole country and some other 20 possible nesting areas, with increasing number of places to check every year.

We are sure that we should work on reintroduction for tree-nesting populations and on further strengthening existing population in cities and mountains of southern Poland.

• You can visit one of the Peregrine nests in Poland
• You can see also pictures form that nest  

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