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Peregrine Falcon The scientific name of the species is Falco peregrinus.

NICHE:
 * Abiotic - Lives on cliffs, cliff-like structures, buildings, bridges, mountainous or rocky areas Source 1
 * Biotic - Other birds, trees, insects,
 * Eats mostly other birds and is about 14-19 inches in length with a wingspan of about 33-36 inches.
 * Doesn't have any specific housing requirements, lives in other bird's nests. No climate requirements.
 * It isn't preyed on, but preys on many other, smaller birds.
 * Eats smaller birds. The smaller birds eat insects. The insects eat plants. The plants gets energy from the sun.
 * Females usually lay 3-4 eggs.
 * The animal is active in all seasons and during both night and day.
 * It lives with its partner.
 * Peregrine Falcons have 12 different calls, all of them meaning different things.

A species is threatened, if its numbers aren't low enough to be considered endangered. The species still has many serious problems, and may become endangered if the problems aren't fixed. A species is considered endangered if it faces immediate danger of becoming extinct. The animal is endangered from the use of DDT, a pesticide that prevents insects from eating plants. It traveled up the food chain from insects to small birds to the Peregrine. It causes the egg shells to be really thin, resulting in them breaking most of the time. Source 2 The current population size is around 30-40 pairs in New Hampshire. To save the species, the use of DDT was halted decades ago. Also, eggs ere incubated in labs and bred so that they would have a better chance of surviving. This allowed the population to increase and slowly being the process of going back to normal. [|Source 3] The efforts are working. For nearly the last 25 years, Peregrine Falcons have been nesting in and around New Hampshire. This is up from being nearly zero Peregrine Falcons in the eastern half of the U.S. [|Picture source 1]