"For nine years, a pair of peregrine falcons have made their home in an unlikely place: the smokestacks of a Virginia power plant.

But animal researchers say the unique resting place might have spurred rise of a new breed of Virginia falcons, bred with peregrines from other areas, after the birds’ disappearance more than a half-century ago. It’s also helping researchers amid a biological renaissance uncommon in nature.

One falcon, the female, came from the Betsy Ross Bridge in New Jersey. Her partner was born at a power plant in Maryland. Home is now near the top of a red and white smokestack at Dominion Energy’s Possum Point Power Station."

Victoria St. Martin reports for the Washington Post May 30, 2017. [2]