This falcon camera is brought to you by the DNR Nongame Wildlife Program, which helps over 700 species of Minnesota wildlife thrive. The program is largely supported by donations from people like you. This year, we celebrate forty years of effective conservation.
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Learn more about peregrine falcons
Welcome to the 2024 FalconCam nesting season!
Peregrine falcons can be spotted at this nest box in downtown Saint Paul throughout the year. They are most active beginning in March with the start of the breeding season.
This site is highly desirable for the falcons because it provides a clear view of the Mississippi River. Peregrine falcons feed almost exclusively on birds, so this river corridor provides them with easy hunting, particularly during migration as birds journey along the Mississippi Flyway.
April 2024 update
A pair of peregrine falcons has an active nest and is tending eggs. This spring, the webcam has captured this pair of falcons demonstrating courtship displays and creating a nest in the gravel. Their first egg could be seen Thursday, April 11 and the second on Saturday, April 13. Falcons typically lay eggs in 48- to- 72-hour intervals.
The two adult falcons using this nest box have been identified by the Midwest Peregrine Society as an 11-year-old female and a 15-year-old male. This female falcon has nested in this box since 2016. The male, banded as a chick in 2009 in Indiana, is a new partner for the female.
As of April 22, 2024, four eggs have been laid. The eggs should begin hatching as early as May 17. Stay tuned!
2023 Report
The adults at this location were identified in spring of 2023 as female 1907-02970 hatched in 2013 and a male 1126-06335.
Four eggs were laid and two young hatched on May 19, 2023. Bremer tower (Sentinel Properties) tenants met the two male chicks when they were banded. Band numbers given were: 1266-14902 and 1947-56825 and the chicks successfully fledged in early July.
The female is a 10-year-old that originated from St. Cloud and the male is three years old that hatched from a nesting box in Minneapolis.
Notes:
- There is no audio available with this camera.
- This is live video of wild birds in the natural process of raising their young. Life and death struggles occur all the time in the natural world. DNR staff will monitor this camera and will evaluate incidents as they occur, but we do not plan or condone, any interference with this nest or its occupants.
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About the DNR FalconCam
The DNR Nongame Wildlife Program streams video of peregrine falcons nesting on the top of the Bremer Bank Building in downtown St. Paul. With the help of the Town Square merchants and the Midwest Peregrine Society, the Nongame Wildlife Program is able to provide this unique opportunity to watch peregrines raise their young in an urban setting.
In 1987, a nest boxbox was placed on the east side of the building and was first used by a pair of falcons in 1988. Several pairs of falcons have chosen this site as their home, producing 65 chicks through 2012. Several pairs have nested in the box and the current female has occupied since 2016.
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The DNR Nongame Wildlife Program thanks its partners in this webcam adventure: The Midwest Peregrine Society, Sentinel Properties and the Town Square building tenants.