Hopewell Rocks Home To A Family Of Peregrine Falcons

If you’re planning to visit the Hopewell Rocks during your stay-cation, keep an eye out for a family of peregrine falcons.

Supervisor of interpretive services, Kevin Snair says they’ve been nesting in the park for about 12 years and are relatively rare in the province.

“They were common up until the 60s or 70s when the use of pesticides pretty much lost them for the province in total. But then in the 1980s they were reintroduced in Fundy National Park and they’re doing fairly well,” he says.

Snair says there are now about 20 nest sites around New Brunswick.

There are currently two adults and 3 young ones living in Fundy park. Snair says a fourth one did fledge but wasn’t quite able to keep up with the others and didn’t make it.

He says a total of 22 peregrine falcons were born at the park which made it to flight, a good number for a bird that was on the endangered species list just a few years ago.