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Wisconsin utilities began bolting nest boxes to power plant smokestacks in the early 1990s, and about 22 percent of every peregrine falcon born in the wild in the state now hatches on a generating station, because a smokestack is the cliff the species ran out of

Wisconsin utilities began bolting nest boxes to power plant smokestacks in the early 1990s, and about 22 percent of every peregrine falcon born in the wild in the state now hatches on a generating station, because a smokestack is the cliff the species ran out of

When cliffs disappeared, power plants became the most reliable real estate for one of nature's fastest predators to raise its young. The post Wisconsin utilities began bolting nest boxes to power plant smokestacks in the early 1990s, and about 22 percent of every peregrine falcon born in the wild in the state now hatches on a generating station, because a smokestack is the cliff the species ran out of appeared first on Space Daily .