Ariel hatched in 1992 and spent most of her life in a captive breeding program, helping promote the recovery of the anatum peregrine falcon in the wild.  She was retired in 2000, and joined the Canadian Peregrine Foundation as an educational bird later the same year.  She is very comfortable around people, and since the spring of 2001 has been introducing thousands of students across southern Ontario to the peregrine falcon through a series of school visits.