Peregrine Falcons on Coastal Beaches of Washington: Fifteen Years of Banding and Surveys

Abstract Aspects of Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) migration along the northern Pacific coast are less well understood than are those along other flyways in North America. As part of a continuing long-term project, we captured and color-banded 140 Peregrine Falcons (90 females and 50 males, 105 of which were 50% of these exhibited within-beach use fidelity, defined as reobservation i...