The world’s fastest bird soared off of the Endangered Species list today
(Aug. 20) with the announcement of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s
delisting decision.
“It’s a spectacular summer for America’s great birds, the bald eagle,
the Aleutian Canada goose and today the peregrine falcon,” said the Secretary
of the Interior, Bruce Babbitt.
The peregrine falcon also joins the southeastern population of the brown
pelican, the American alligator, the Rydberg milk-vetch, and the gray …
