While LBI is known to show off some funky architecture, visitors may have wondered about the dog igloo sitting high atop a nesting structure just east of the Causeway Bridge. It is currently home to a peregrine falcon family, with four rapidly growing chicks, one male and three female.

Kathleen Clark, supervising zoologist of the state Department of Environmental Protection, Ben Wurst of Conserve Wildlife Foundation of NJ and volunteer data scientist Jim Verhagen recently ventured out to the…