Habitats
Sapsan typically chooses places inaccessible to humans with a wide horizon, the greatest preference for rocky shores of water bodies - both internal and external. The greatest population density of birds reach the valleys of mountain rivers, where there are optimal conditions for nesting. In the mountainous areas, usually nesting on the rocks in the forest zone often settles along the river bluffs, on the extensive moss bogs or high in trees, where occupies the old nests of other birds. Regardless of the occupied territory, has always been near the wetland complex area of not less than 10 km². Avoids areas of solid dark wood, as well as the vast treeless space.
Sometimes (in the last few years) as a peregrine habitat choose settlements, including large ones. For example, it is known that moose in the island in Moscow birds settled annually in the 1927-1941 biennium. As well as in 1963 In the city limits like the birds nest on the roofs of churches and other stone skyscrapers. Thus, in the early 1950's there were reports of birds nesting on St. Isaac's Cathedral in Leningrad, in 1958 and 1966. for high-rise on a brilliant night coast Embankment in Moscow. In 2008, according to A. Akhundov, the head of the protection and restoration of biodiversity and habitats of wild animals in the Department of natural resources and environmental protection in Moscow, one in Moscow sapsanov pair nesting at the main the building of Moscow State University.
Except for extreme northern populations, peregrine usually sedentary, either during the cold season moves in a slight distance. This pubescent males, to the extent possible, stay near the breeding territory throughout the year. In the arctic and subarctic climates birds make long-distance seasonal migration, often zaletaya more of their resident neighbors. Thus, the observed ornithologists, peregrine nesting in Greenland in the winter can reach the southern tip of the South American continent. The territory of the Russian Federation did not form a peregrine nesting only in the steppe zone of Western Siberia and the Volga region, but may be there in the period of seasonal migration.