Now closed - Webcam of Falcons Nest in Sagrada Familia Barcelona
See 4 newly born falcon chicks. Now they will be in the nest for 4 weeks until the middle of May 2009 before leaving the nest. See it all on a wonderful web cam showing a pelegrine falcon's nest installed in Gaudi unfinished church La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona in early April 2009. The webcam is live with sound so that we can watch four young falcons grow.
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The nest containing four Peregrine falcon eggs (Falcon peregrinus brookei) is in the bell tower of St. Bartholomew in the Passion Facade of the Sagrada Familia and the live webcam will be on until the chicks fly the nest.
Experts believe that this happy event is the result of a meeting and subsequent mating between a male falcon released in the Port of Barcelona in July 2001 and a female falcon born in the front cliffs of Montjuïc hill in 2006.
Peregrine falcons nesting in Barcelona used to be a regular sight in the city Barcelona until 1973 when the last known nest was in the church of Santa Maria del Mar in the Born area of Barcelona.
To replenish the falcons of Barcelona, the Barcelona City Council started a programme of reintroduction in 1999.
By 2003 47 falcons had been released in Barcelona and in the years between 2004 and 2008, an amazing 39 baby falcons were born in Barcelona.
Other Spanish cities have started similar initiatives in cities such as Girona, Lerida, Tarragona, Valencia, Seville, Cordoba and Salamanca, and others.
