{"id":381757,"date":"2026-01-01T14:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T14:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/381757\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T14:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T14:32:12","slug":"we-energies-says-peregrine-falcon-program-reached-milestone-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/381757\/","title":{"rendered":"We Energies says peregrine falcon program reached milestone in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/port-washington-peregrine-falcon.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Port Washington peregrine falcon nest box <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">MILWAUKEE &#8211; We Energies announced its peregrine falcon program reached a milestone in 2025, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WITI\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The program started in 1992 with the goal of helping to re-establish the birds, which became endangered in the 1960s, in Wisconsin. Since then, We Energies and Wisconsin Public Service have welcomed the births of 465 falcon chicks at their power plants.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\"><a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/foxlocal.onelink.me\/6abq\/ijh6elyt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">FREE DOWNLOAD: Get breaking news alerts in the FOX LOCAL Mobile app for iOS or Android<\/a><\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WITI\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">By the numbers:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The utility&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wecenergygroup.com\/environment\/falcons\/we-wps-nest-report2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> Peregrine Falcon Nesting Season Report<\/a> outlines the program and nesting details. With the chicks born in 2025, We Energies says, 20% of all peregrine falcons born in the wild in Wisconsin over the past 33 years have now hatched at We Energies or WPS facilities.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WITI\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The 2025 report states that 12 chicks, named after the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.we-energies.com\/peregrine-falcon-chicks-named-after-founding-feathers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">founding feathers<\/a>&#8221; of the We Energies and WPS peregrine falcon program, hatched this year. It also notes some <a href=\"https:\/\/news.we-energies.com\/three-peregrine-falcon-chicks-spotted-in-the-wild\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">recent sightings of chicks in the wild<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: We Energies released information about its peregrine falcon program.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox6now.com\/tag\/organization\/we-energies\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">We Energies<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox6now.com\/tag\/science\/wild-nature\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wild Nature<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox6now.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox6now.com\/tag\/us\/wi\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wisconsin<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Port Washington peregrine falcon nest box MILWAUKEE &#8211; We Energies announced its peregrine falcon program reached a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[3,12325,79,25,186262,12440,5138,201],"class_list":["post-381757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-news","tag-organization","tag-science","tag-us","tag-we-energies","tag-wi","tag-wild-nature","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}