Greg Septon: “The Recovery, Management and Future of Wisconsin’s Peregrines”

SAVE THE DATE! Join us for CLCF’s Nature Series presentation featuring Greg Septon’s overview of Peregrine Falcon recovery efforts in Wisconsin between 1987- 2026. Discussions include recovery methods and approaches utilized in the creation of an urban nesting population along the Lake Michigan shoreline. Also covered will be nest box designs, urban nest site management issues and resolutions, band returns, dispersal of hacked and wild-produced falcons, nesting chronology, prey species, overwintering, environmental contaminants and the role of electric power generating plants in the recovery of the population. The reoccupation of historical cliff eyries along the Mississippi & Wisconsin Rivers, the Door Peninsula and the Apostle Islands will also be covered. And finally, we’ll take a look at what the future may hold for the Peregrine Falcon in Wisconsin.

Septon has special interests in endangered species recovery programs and environmental conservation efforts. For the past 40 years he has directed and managed a successful and expanding urban Peregrine Falcon recovery effort in Wisconsin and has banded nearly 1,600 wild-produced peregrines in the state. Working in conjunction with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s Office of International Affairs, he also implemented an urban Peregrine Falcon recovery program in Russia and was involved with initiating a similar program in Poland.

CLCF’s Nature Series is sponsored by the Ziegler Family Foundation in Memory of R.D. Ziegler.