EarthSpan, Monitoring Peregrines for Decades

https://www.facebook.com/PadreIslandPeregrines/photos/a.320199688140121.1073741829.314615355365221/542992219194199/?type=3&fref=nf

Falconers helping peregrines transition to the wild

These peregrines were taken care of by falconers prior to being back in the wild.
https://www.facebook.com/Midwest-Peregrine-Society-354352871260525/

Historic falcon trapping and banding

I met Brian McDonald years ago in Virginia at a falconry meet.  He also made hoods.
http://blog.nature.org/science/2014/01/27/mad-men-go-falcon-trapping/

Peregrine Falcon 'Island Girl' is on the move

Watch her migration here:

http://www.frg.org/track_pefa12.htm

Falconry DOES benefit raptors prior to release

See here:   http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1647/1082-6742(2006)20%5B15:FLAADF%5D2.0.CO%3B2

The Return of the Peregrine, 1978

BTW:  The people featured are all falconers, practicing falconry to this day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kju3Pz3R9D8

The Return of the Peregrine, 1978

BTW:  Every single one of the people featured in this episode are FALCONERS and still practice falconry to this day.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kju3Pz3R9D8