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Webcam of Falcon's Nest in Sagrada Familia E-mail

Webcam of Falcons Nest in Sagrada Familia Barcelona

 Wonderful web cam where you can sometimes see a pelegrine falcon's nest  installed in Gaudi's unfinished church La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. The webcam is live with sound. 4 chicks were hatched in spring 2009.
Visit http://www.falconsbarcelona.net to see webcam

2009. 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 is 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.

 
go    More webcams in Barcelona

go     Location La Sagrada Famlia church in Barcelona

go    More information about falcons in Barcelona here (in Catalan)

go    More information about the Peregrine Falcon

go    Visit bird center Cim d’Àligues (Eagle’s Peak) - many bird species inclucing vultures,  eagles and  aerial bird show



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