Chuck Ripper: Peregrine Falcon

Artist: Chuck Ripper
1929 -
Nationality: American
Artwork Year: 1992
Image Size: 12.75 by 14.5 inches
Overall Size: 14.75 by 17.75 inches
Medium: Gouche Water Color on Masonite

The steel, concrete, traffic and smog of a major city would harldy seem ideal conditions for a beautiful, wild Peregrine Falcon. Yet these man-made canyons in places such as Denver, Boston and New York may play a crucial role in the survival of this agile bird of prey. Few other birds have seen such attention as the Peregrine Falcon. Nearly wiped out by habitat loss and the use of pesticides, enormous effort has been undertaken to reverse its fall toward extinction. By far the most innovative program and possibly the experiment with the brightest future has involved stocking birds in major metropolitan United States cities. Since Peregrine Falcons almost exclusively eat birds, they are a perfect control for the enormous and bothersome pigeon populations in many cities. To help increase the falcon populations, eggs are carefully incubated by biologists and young birds are stocked in a number of locations. Each bird is painstakingly monitored to see if it adapts to its new home. Then in autumn, the swift wings of the young Peregrines take them south. During this time, the birds cannot be monitored, but if they return to their adopted homes in the spring, the transplant is on its way to success. All of these efforts are tremendously costly and entail a great deal of risk. But one has only to see a Peregrine Falcon hunting the skies above the asphalt and concrete to understand that no cost is too great to save this bit of wilderness in the midst of humanity.

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