STATE PARKS: APLOMADO FALCONS: Restoring and 
endangered falcon to its native range ... details on 
Passport to Texas.

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After disappearing from parts of Texas almost 50 years 
ago, steps are being taken to restore the endangered, AP-
LO-MA-DOE falcon to its native range -- and one state park 
will play a role in this effort. Our State park Guide, Bryan 
Frazier has more.

62 -- We had some habitat destruction and just practices that we 
just weren't aware of what we were doing as a culture that ended 
up impacting these birds of prey. Well, in the years and decades 
since, we've been able to learn from our mistakes, and we've been 
able to bring back some of the beautiful, magnificent birds of 
prey to the south Texas coast. You've got an existing population 
of about thirty-five or so nesting Aplomado falcons, and we're 
now putting more in at mustang island SP. It's a real creative task 
force effort from the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and the 
Peregrine Fund, and TPW, the National Park Service, and all these 
groups and agencies that have interest in protecting and 
preserving our resources are bringing back these birds. They're 
putting them up on these ten and twelve foot platforms called 
hack sites, and they're putting chicks in there; getting the 
acclimated to the habitat, getting the ready to leave the nest and 
help fill some of those habitat gaps in between existing 
populations. And Mustang Island State Park's right near Corpus -- 
along a key part of the shoreline. It's a great place to get those 
birds back where they belong.

Thanks Bryan

That's our show for today ... with funding provided by 
Chevrolet, supporting outdoor recreation in Texas; because 
there's life to be done.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife I'm Cecilia Nasti. 







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