Here she is,
April the
Peregrine, a
youngster, a first-year falcon, just after she flew into
Tacoma in mid-April 1998. See how dark she is. In this
photo, she begins to take off from the top of the 11th
Street Bridge.
April, the female Tacoma Peregrine Falcon, was killed over the New Year's weekend (1999), apparently when she crashed into power or support wires under the 11th Street Bridge. She was not yet two years old.
A visiting falcon watcher from Alaska found her body on a landing of stairs leading down from the bridge to Dock Street below
She had evidently chased pigeons fleeing under the bridge, where they roost, and had hurled at falcon speed into the wires.