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Mischa, Peregrine Falcon

Updated 3/24/2025 4:01:31 PM

Falco peregrinus Peregrine Falcons are part of the Falconidae family in the order Falconiformes. Click here to learn more... Have you met? Bodie Jillian Little Billie Nigel Portia Sibley Simon Sonny Sonora Taiga Wes Would you like to help provide Mischa with a lifetime of quality care? She is currently available for adoption under our "Apopt a Raptor" program.

Star program bird and was incurrently in flight training. In late May 2022, our friend Skip Tubbsfrom Springhill Falcons in Bozeman sent a brief email that he had a baby Peregrine if we were interested. One we acquired from him two years ago didn't work out, now at Cascades Raptor Center in Eugene, Oregon. He thought this one a.) was a female, 2.) would make a fine imprint, and c.) her mother is Sibley's half-sister. So that (and a coin toss, I am not kidding) cinched it and I was off the next morning to pick up the 21-day-old downy falcon, met Skip in Butte. I started counting in my head on the way back, and this will be the eighth falcon raised in the house, playpen inside and one in the yard, vacuuming up down feathers twice a day. Quail run through the meat grinder in the garage, "gerry" pads all over the place to be hosed out every morning, falcon toys littering the floor. Cardboard barricades to keep her in the office running around and not the rest of the house, jazz music on all the time. I LOVE doing this! So at 45 days of age "all growed up" and ready to go. And don't tell Sibley, but not a single bad habit. Sib would wake us up right when it started getting light as a baby, 20 years ago.Tom always suggests birds names, Mischa sounded quaint, and it means "a girl most people can only dream about" in the urban dictionary. She has starred in numerous "selfies" from school groups and even for the band Queensryche in their second-annual visit. I am getting hip, maybe hipper, and was even in a selfie. That March 2025 "Raptors Relocates" due the neighbor's warehouse and our sweetie has taken an about-face. Absolutely INSANE: fine in her new building but hanging upside-down screaming (bating) when we walk to the house. I have never in my life see anything even remotely close to this. Never bated in her nearly three years, could kiss her on the beak, and now....well, very disturbing. Trying so new tactics, including safety glasses for me and hooding her, falconry style. HATES that. Cross your fingers, friends. Date Acquired: 5/28/2022 Top

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