Innovation Anthology #705:
As part of its sustainable land stewardship protocol, Capital Power looks after a lot of wildlife at its Genesee mining and reclamation operations southwest of Edmonton.
Jennifer Linder is Genesee’s Land Use Coordinator.
And she says everyone looks forward to spring brings when the peregrine falcons return.
JENNIFER LINDER: Genesee is home to a pair of nesting peregrine falcons. We have a nesting box set up for them on one of our stacks on site. We’ve been having the same female come back to this site since 2009. They winter in South America, typically in the Venezuela area, and they get back about mid April and they lay eggs. And in the last few years, we’ve had four eggs laid and four eggs hatched. Actually we have a live streaming camera pointed at the nest box. So 24/7 you can watch the falcons grow . It’s really quite interesting because you can watch them from the point where they start making the scrape in the next to the eggs laid and to them hatching. And then watching the babies grow up, they change so quickly in the matter of about 45 day.
Jennifer Linder says one study in 2011 tracked the peregrines all the way to Venezuela and back. And the birds provide natural pest control at Genesee.
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Program Date: 2015-08-06