About Nesting of the Peregrine Falcon on the Water Tower in the Altai Kray, Russia

Abstract

On 19th of June, 2016 a Peregrine Falcon nestling was found among dwelling houses in Biysk’s neighborhood, reported to us by a local resident E. Shitikova. According to her, the nestling jumped out of the nest on water tower because workers disturbed him. We could examine the tower to find the nest on the 6th of July. The falcons’ nest was found on a partially covered by grass concrete platform on the top of the tower.

Keywords

• хищные птицы
• пернатые хищники
• сапсан
• Falco peregrinus