Tracking devices so tiny a monarch butterfly can support them, are being repurposed to help track the fastest creature in the world: the peregrine falcon.
‘Gino Falcone’ a peregrine falcon born this past spring at a Wisconsin Public Service (WPS) generating station in Port Washington, WI, was banded in the nest, and has been making a home in the Bay of Green Bay and is especially fond of the cliffs of Door County.
WPS Spokesperson Matt Cullen shared the tracking map of Gino Falcone’s flight patterns, noting that this particular bird has flown across the water of Green Bay at least five times…