Living Creatures - Young peregrine falcons at a heat generating facility
Four young peregrine falcons are currently nesting in a box situated around 50 meters above the ground in Bochum. This box has been recognized as a breeding site for the eighth consecutive year by these raptors, as announced by the city on Tuesday. The group responsible for protecting these birds in North Rhine-Westphalia tagged each of the two female and two male chicks with special markers. The wooden nest box was installed on the chimney of the heating power plant following the closure of Bochum's Opel plant, with a new site needed to be found.
With a size larger than a pigeon, peregrine falcons are considered rock-dwellers. Their typical habitats are mountains and steep cliffs. However, they have adapted to urban settings and often choose to live on power plant chimneys, transmission towers, motorway bridges, or church steeples.
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The unique urban habitat of these young peregrine falcons in Bochum, located in North Rhine-Westphalia, has provided them with a suitable nesting site for the eighth year in a row. Despite originally being rock-dwellers, animals like peregrine falcons have adapted to live in cities, often choosing structures such as power plant chimneys.
Source: www.stern.de
