You’ll notice their range includes essentially everywhere on earth, though they really thrive in cities.
Due to their greater abundance in cities than most other birds, feral pigeons support many peregrine populations as a staple food source, especially in urban settings.
The peregrine is a highly successful example of urban wildlife in much of its range, taking advantage of tall buildings as nest sites, and an abundance of prey such as pigeons and ducks.
Oh yeah, I see the red tailed hawks all the time, and I’m not far from the city. We even have some bald eagles these days. We don’t see them often, but there are some.
Let me introduce you to the peregrine falcon
You’ll notice their range includes essentially everywhere on earth, though they really thrive in cities.
DDT really did a number on urban avian predators; it gets concentrated up the food chain and then the eggs of birds become too fragile.
I haven’t checked in for a few years, but I think New York City was making efforts to reintroduce them.
And it’s funny to me to have an environmental initiative largely motivated by “something needs to be killing all these fucking pigeons.”
they mostly remediated that at least for wild birds eggs.
partially some red tailed hawks have made cities thier homes.
Oh yeah, I see the red tailed hawks all the time, and I’m not far from the city. We even have some bald eagles these days. We don’t see them often, but there are some.