June 7 News

The eggs have hatched! - On Saturday, June 5 at 5:17:18pm, a viewer in the USA spotted the first of our three eggs hatching. Soon after (between 9:59pm on Saturday, June 5 and 5:11am on Sunday, June 6), eggs #2 and #3 were also welcomed into the world. Keep reading for more updates as the chicks grow older!

Welcome to the U of A Peregrine Falcon Blog

The Peregrine Webcam Project is a valuable project preserving and appreciating urban wildlife species. It is an important component to campus sustainability because it creates awareness of endangered species that exist within our immediate environments, as well as bringing diverse network of community stakeholders together to talk about issues of sustainability. A camera was installed on the U of A Calgary peregrines in the early 1990s. That camera was not only the first webcam on a peregrine nest anywhere, it was the first webcam on any bird nest in the world. There are nine other webcams in Eastern Canada.

There are now more than forty-five pairs of Pergrine Falcons across Alberta, including one pair nesting atop the Clinical Sciences building on the University of Alberta campus. There are three webcams focused on the Peregrine nest box, one with an outdoor view of the nest box from the side, one with an outdoor view of the nest box from the front and one on the box, which provides a view of the nest inside.