Dairyland Power's Peregrine Falcon Restoration Program
Dairyland’s Peregrine Falcon Restoration Program began in the 1990s and, since then, over 170 falcons have fledged from the Alma and Genoa sites combined! This is a great testament to the power of collaboration between industry and the environment.
2026 Nesting Season Summary
This spring, two new Peregrine falcons nested at Dairyland’s Alma nesting box: Doolittle, a male, and Freydis, a female. The pair laid a clutch of four eggs, all of which hatched in mid-May. Peregrine falcon pairs work together incubating and, later, feeding the chicks.
About 40 days after hatching, the chicks’ legs are full grown, but they are not yet able to fly. This is the ideal time for Dairyland and the Raptor Resource Project to band the chicks using tags with codes that denote the sex and banding location of each falcon. The four Alma chicks were banded on June 9 and later fledged in early July. This brings the total number of falcons hatched from Dairyland sites to more than 170.