Operation Peregrine
Registered Name: Peregrine Falcon Recovery Project (Manitoba)
Business No: 873169163RR0001
This organization is designated by Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) as a registered charity. They comply with the CRA's requirements and has been issued a charitable registration number.
Donations in support of the Project's day-to-day operations are essential. With the increasing number of "at-risk" species across the country and because most of our activities are on-going, we are usually not eligible for grants. The Project is volunteer-driven, relying almost entirely on public donations to support its recovery efforts.
The Project's day-to-day recovery efforts include:
- identifying our returning Peregrines in March/April
- locating/identifying nesting pairs then monitoring nest sites
- banding chicks so they can be identified in the future (hopefully when they have chicks of their own!)
- monitoring the behaviour and health of the adults and chicks
- monitoring the chicks as they take their first flights (called fledging) so that if they do run into trouble, we can do our best to rescue them
- if a Peregrine (adult or chick) is injured, we work with the province's two wildlife rehabilitation organizations with the hope that the bird can be returned to the wild
Other activities include:
- maintaining existing nestsites and installing new nestboxes where we can
- operating a public webcam at the Radisson Hotel in Winnipeg and we hope to resurrect a camera at the nestsite in Brandon
- providing regular updates on Manitoba's Peregrines via our Twitter account, blog and the Project's online forum
- when and where we can, we make presentations to the general public and for school children