Toponymie | Canton de Potton | Place Names

This road name would be Peregrin Falcon road in the English language.  The Chemin des Faucons-Pèlerins leads to the back of Sugar Loaf Mountain and to an undefined area called Sevastopol or “Sebastopool”, as it is often called locally.  The high outcroppings found there are ideal for peregrine nests. 

The Falco peregrinus, also known simply as the peregrine, and historically as the "Duck Hawk" in North America, is a bird of prey in the family Falconidae.  It is a large, crow-sized falcon with a blue-gray back, barred white underparts, and a black head and dark “sideburns”, especially visible when it perches.  The peregrine is an aerodynamic raptor with breathtaking flight speed.  While its diet consists almost exclusively of medium-sized birds, the Peregrine will occasionally hunt small mammals, small reptiles or even insects.  It reaches sexual maturity at one year old, and usually mates for life.  The peregrine's nest is called a scrape, and is generally built high on cliff edges or, in recent times, on tall man-made structures.  The Peregrine Falcon became an endangered species in many areas due to the use of pesticides.  Since the ban on the use of DDT in the 1970s, the peregrine population has recovered, supported by large scale protection of nesting places and releases to the wild.^[1]