Co-Parenting Peregrine Falcons

The male Peregrine Falcon comes in very fast with a dead bird, drops it in the nest, and then the female falcon picks it up and carries it across the river to a forested island, where she plucks it before returning it to the nest for the chicks to feed.

I suspect this shuttle is done so that not too much attention is given to the nest. Peregrines are predators, but they can become prey too. I have seen red fox slinking about high on these cliffs, and Bald Eagles are always about, to say nothing of several species of hawk.