Broken eggs in Peregrine Eyries

number of eyries of the Peregrine (Falco peregrinus) that I examined, there were fourteen in which one or more e g g s were either broken or disappeared, with no evidence of human or other outside interference. This would seem a larger number than could be explained by chance accidents alone. Nor was this a local occurrence, as the records, which are listed below, refer to fourteen different inlan...