When you walk around East Campus, you may notice a small box and a protruding wood stick on the top of Fox Hall. This is the habitat and nesting place of UMass Lowell's resident peregrine falcons, ...

But in the 1950s and 1960s, a dramatic drop in the number of peregrine falcons was observed in Europe and North America. By the 1960s, peregrines were nearly extinct in the United States.