“Falcons on release day”

• Main Author: Morton, Hugh MacRae, 1921-2006.
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives 1984
• Subjects: Birds; Endangered species; Peregrine falcon.; Grandfather Mountain (N.C.); Linville (N.C.); Avery County (N.C.); Avery; peregrine falcon
• Online Access: http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/morton_highlights,7108

Falcons at falcon site on release day at Grandfather Mountain, NC. Grandfather Mountain was used as an original release site for peregrine falcons during 1980s reintroduction efforts for the endangered species; it was the first place that peregrines were successfully reintroduced to North Carolina.