Bald eagles have increased tenfold, to more than 5,000 pairs in 1996 from fewer than 500 pairs in 1963.

Peregrine falcons jumped from a 1975 low of 39 breeding pairs, all of them in the West, to 993 pairs in 1996, including 153 pairs newly re-established in the Eastern states.

The osprey count is up from fewer than 8,000 breeding pairs nationwide in 1981 to 14,246 pairs in 1994.