When Falcons Circle Over Troyes – The Return of the Hunters to the City

For a long time, city centers belonged to the pigeons. They perched on ledges, swarmed train stations, fluttered over marketplaces, and made historic facades their personal residences. In many French cities, this was almost considered a natural law. But now over Troyes, a different shadow drifts across the sky: that of the peregrine falcon. And it disrupts the familiar order. A falcon pair now officially lives on the city's cathedral. High above, more than forty meters from the ground, a nesting box has even been installed. At first glance, this ...