The Peregrine Fund
For over 50 years, The Peregrine Fund has worked to conserve birds of prey. Today, 56% of raptors are in decline globally, 32% are threatened or near-threatened, and 17 species are Critically Endangered, with a high risk of going extinct in the next 50 years. As top predators, birds of prey serve as indicators of ecosystem health while providing essential services like rodent control and disease prevention through carrion removal. We need raptors, and raptors need us. Together with our global partners and supporters, we tackle threats such as pollution, deforestation, and human-wildlife conflict, in addition to the expertise we provide in science and conservation specific to birds of prey. The result is a better world for raptors and the rest of us. The Peregrine Fund relies on science to inform conservation actions that save species. We repopulated a continent with Peregrine Falcons in just 30 years, doubled the population of Critically Endangered Ridgway’s Hawks in the Dominican Republic, and identified and addressed the cause of the Asian Vulture Crisis in the mid-2000s. Today, we work across five continents on behalf of all 561 raptor species.www.peregrinefund.org
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Oct 29, 2026
Mike WebsterGUEST
And there was a concerted effort to, they didn't capture all of the peregrines that were left out there, but they did bring some into captivity.
Mike WebsterGUEST
It's a captive breeding program that was really spearheaded by Tom Cade, who was here at Cornell at the time and started the Peregrine Fund.
Mike WebsterGUEST
And they went to a lot of effort to, um, captively breed these birds and then to hack the young back into, uh, the wild.
Mike WebsterGUEST
And what hacking is, is take the, the young birds soon after they hatch and you put them out in a box out of the wild on a cliff side, these birds breed on cliff sides, um, and you feed it through a contraption so the birds don't, um, get imprinted on humans.
Clay MillerGUEST
You know, we all, when we got old enough to kind of pay attention and enjoy it, we all got a bird guidebook that we carried with us that we could keep up.
Clay MillerGUEST
You know, we knew, had to know what birds was, were, cause we were going to have, there was going to be a test at some point, you know, what bird is that? You know, so, uh, uh, And we were, we were involved in the project with the Peregrine Fund to release, re-release oplomatos into the Trans-Pecos, into the Chihuahuan Desert, along with some other ranches here in the Trans-Pecos.
Clay MillerGUEST
So, yeah, they've always had affinity and affinity.
Clay MillerGUEST
They always had an affinity for nature and supporting those who had the same passions as they did.
Ryan ShostackGUEST
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Ryan ShostackGUEST
the individual moved out to Idaho, and that's how the Peregrine Fund was born.
Mathew RadfordHOST
Oh, very cool.
Ryan ShostackGUEST
Mm-hmm.