In 2000 it was detected the first Barcelona peregrine pair, in Torre Catalunya building, close to Sants Railway Station in Països Catalans square. Female and male were released at the Hotel Princesa Sofia, the female on 2000 and the male one year before.
The pair was observed during 2000, 2001 and 2002, but never got to breed. In 2003 the building was restored and the couple disappeared and was not seen again in the city.
In 2001 a second pair was detected. The pair was located within the municipal district of Sant Adrià del Besòs, specifically on top of one of the chimneys of Sant Adrià de Besòs Power Station, just behind the beach and by the mouth of the River Besòs. The male had been released in Sagrada Família in 1999 while the female was "wild", that is, it was not one of the individuals released as part of the reintroduction project.
This pair bred for the first time in 2003, thus becoming the first to nest in Barcelonès County since 1973. The pair bred again here in 2004, 2005 and 2008.
In the autumn of 2003, the third pair was observed in the Hotel Arts in the Olympic Port. The male had been released in the Port in 2001 while the female was "wild". In 2004 this pair chose the Montjuïc sea cliff to breed, becoming the first nesting pair in the city of Barcelona since the species' extinction in 1973.
The pair definitively established themselves in this territory. Since 2004, these pair breeds steadily each year.
Also, during the autumn of 2003 another pair was spotted in the area of Diagonal Mar in Poble Nou. The female and male had been released in the Port, the female in 2001 and the male in 2002. In 2004 this pair chose the Torre Macosa in Poble Nou to breed.
In the autumn of 2004 the female died and was replaced by a new female of a "wild" origin. In 2005 this new pair bred once again in the same site. The year 2006 this pair does not breed. The winter of 2006/07 a male born in the Sagrada Família replaces the male who had occupied the territory from the year 2003 and breed successfully the year 2008.
The year 2009 and 2010 this pair does not breed.
Finally, in the autumn of 2004, the fourth and final known pair was formed. They moved into the Church of Sagrada Família. The male had been released in the Port in 2001 and the female was again "wild". This pair bred for the first time in 2005, in the bell tower of Sant Bartomeu on the Façade of the Passion. The year 2006 the pair also breeds in the same place. In 2007 a young female born 2006 in Montjuïc cliffs, there replaces the female who had bred in the previous years. This new female and the male breed successfully the years 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.
In summary, a total of 54 Peregrine chicks have hatched in the city of Barcelona between 2004 and 2010.
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