Hacking is the main method now used in peregrine falcon restoration. Hacking involves placing 4-5 five week old peregrine chicks in an artificial structure on a cliff face, tower or building. The birds are cared for by human hack site attendants until released for fledging when they are 42-45 days old. Hacking success depends on safety from predators, minimal human disturbance and the presence of suffcient prey. The desired result of this effort is the return of hacked birds to the general area of the hack site as breeding adults, helping to reestablish a breeding population. http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/others/sdrare/species/falcpere.htm Suitable for framing in computer labs... and autoreplying to those who ask about hacking..
