Island Girl, the amazing Tundra Peregrine Falcon

  Island Girl is a Tundra Peregrine Falcon, the last GPS tagged Tundra in the Southern Cross Project. Tundra Peregrines make one of the longest migrations in the bird world, around 8,000 miles or more!!! Island Girl has one of the longest, from the southern tip of Chile to an area beyond the North Western Passages very near Greenland! Island Girl just started her trek to her northern hunting grounds.

 Some people will say, that’s nice but Island Girl doesn’t travel through Indiana. That’s true but other Tundra Peregrine Falcons have. One such Tundra Peregrine Falcon was presented to a local wildlife rehabilitator a little over a year ago. The tundra had a bad leg injury which with the help of the vets and Kathy at UTOPUIA Wildlife healed nicely. In fact the falcon did so well we were able to determine the Falcon is a female. She laid several eggs near the end of her rehab before leaving UTOPIA Wildlife!!!

                                    Female Tundra Peregrine Falcon for rehab.

 The healed Falcon was turned over to a local falconer for passage training.  Passage training conditions a rehabilitated Falcon for life in the wild. It brings back hunting skills and muscle tone which may be reduced or lost after a long rehab. I hope this beautiful bird and Island Girl both have long productive lives. The Peregrine Falcon, the fastest bird on the planet never ceases to amaze us as we  learn more about them!!!

Want to learn more about the Tundra Peregrine Falcon or follow the long migration of Island Girl?

 Click the Island Girl link below.

Island Girl