Four Peregrine falcon eggs have hatched at Dairyland's Alma Site nesting box!

2025 Nesting Season Overview:

On March 26, an unbanded falcon was spotted in Dairyland's falcon box in Alma with one egg. The bird is unbanded, leading biologists to believe it is a returning bird from the 2024 nesting season. Peregrine falcon pairs work together incubating and, later, feeding the chicks; female Peregrine falcons are larger than males.

About 40 days after hatching (late April/early May), the chicks' legs are full grown, but they are unable to fly. This is the ideal time for Dairyland and the Raptor Resource Project to band the chicks using tags with codes on them to denote the sex and banding location of each falcon. These codes help track and monitor birds after they fledge. 

You can follow the chicks’ growth and progress towards fledging in real time through our Falcon Cam.