Show Falcons Produce Eggs I Brigham Young University research experts reported last week that the pair of Peale's peregrine falcons they have in captivity have produced a clutch of three JOSEPH head of BYU Zoology related that the clutch is the first produced by falcons in BYU's captive breeding which has been underway less than one The program has previously achieved successful results reproducing offspring from sparrow MURPHY noted it is not yet known whether the falcon eggs are He said other research centers have achieved varying degrees of success with The Peale's peregrine is a subspecies endemic to the northwest Pacific primarily on offshore islands from British Columbia north to the Aleutians A MARITIME Peale's peregrines are characteristically larger and darker falcons than the we have in The peregrine falcon has been a species of concern to conservationists because of waning Murphy pointed that the peregrine's numbers will probably increase with the reduction in j use of DDT as has been the I case in DDT causes 1 egg shell thinning which adds t to the danger of eggs being S broken while being 1 |