Breeding peregrine falcons can suffer when rock climbers climb the cliffs they nest upon because it results in unattended chicks, but specialist Adam Hardy praises those people who do the right thing by avoiding certain cliffs for periods of the year.
This is particularly the case if they come too close to a parent falcon's nest, with even a distance of 200 to 300 metres enough to disturb the birds.
"It only takes one person to be in the wrong spot at the wrong time, and be there for a little bit too long, for the birds' whole breeding season to be messed up," Mr Hardy said. "That's the oldest bird nest ever recorded in the world … so there's a massive history there," Mr Hardy said. "Back in the day, I'm talking 40 years ago, we'd go climbing at crags with falcons … and we'd just go in September and not worry about it," he said.
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