Peregrine Falcon Off Endangered List
The peregrine falcon, back from the brink of extinction, is ready to fly without federal protection, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt said, proposing that it be removed from the endangered species list. Close to being wiped out by DDT pesticide use in the 1960s and 1970s, the world’s fastest bird has recovered sufficiently to be declared out of danger, Babbitt said as he ceremoniously released a peregrine into the wild in Stone Mountain, Ga. Once down to only 324 known nesting pairs across North America, there are now at least 1,593 peregrine breeding pairs in the United States and Canada.
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