Prairie falcon Falco mexicanus
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Length: 16 inches Wingspan: 40 inches
Short, dark, hooked beak
Dark brown cap and cheek
Wingtips fall a couple inches short of tail on perched birds ...
Prairie Falcon
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Prairie Falcon
Relatives in same Genus
Aplomado Falcon (F. femoralis)
Peregrine Falcon (F. peregrinus)
American Kestrel (F. sparverius)
Eurasian Kestrel (F. tinnunculus) ...
The Prairie Falcon (Falco mexicanus) is a resident across much of the western United States and northern Mexico.
Prairie Falcons occur in southern Alberta where cliffs offer secure nesting sites along major rivers at places such as Medicine Hat and Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, or the Oldman and Sheep Rivers.
Prairie falcons usually begin breeding at two years of age. In late winter or early spring the female lays three to six eggs on a cliff or in an abandoned nest. The eggs hatch after about a month. The young are able to fly after 40 days.
Food ...
Prairie Falcon (Falco mexicanus)
PHASIANIDAE: Partridge, Pheasant, Grouse, Turkey, and Quail
Gray Partridge (Perdix perdix) ...
prairie falcons, loggerhead shrikes, longnose leopard lizards and striped whipsnakes. Sometimes found in same habitat as flat-tailed horned lizard. Density of 5/ha reported in Nevada (Tanner and Krogh 1973).
Non-Migrant: Y
Locally Migrant: N ...
Prairie falcon, American kestrel
CLASS: Aves (birds)
ORDER: Falconiformes (diurnal birds of prey) ...
Prairie Falcon Falco mexicanus. Accidental.
References Cited:
Mirarchi. Ralph E., ed. 2004. Alabama Wildlife, Volume One. A Checklist of Vertebrates and Selected Invertebrates: Aquatic Mollusks, Fishes, Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds and Mammals.
Page 2: Prairie Falcon, Mountain Bluebird, Great Horned Owl, Golden Eagle (2 photos) and Black-billed Magpie (October 2007), Great White-fronted Geese and Snow Geese (2 photos) and Northern Harrier (2 photos), November 2007.
Similar Species: Prairie Falcon
ESSAYS:
Conservation; Birds and the Law; How Fast?; Raptor Hunting; Size and Sex; Courtship Feeding.
Western live oak 242 Mesquite 243 Sierra Nevada mixed conifer 246 California black oak 249 Canyon live oak 250 Blue oak - Digger pine 255 California coast live oak SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : NO-ENTRY PLANT COMMUNITIES : Prairie falcons ...
Prairie Falcon Falco mexicanus: along Bridge Street in the San Jacinto Valley, CA 03 Jan
Clapper Rail Rallus longirostris: Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge (Brigantine), NJ, 13 May
Sora Porzana carolina: The Meadows, Cape May, NJ, 14 May ...
The crown and nape are black; a black wedge extends below the eye, forming a distinctive helmet, which is absent in the smaller Merlin and similar Prairie Falcon. The plumage varies from pale to very dark depending on the bird's location.
prairie falcons (Falco mexicanus)
red-tailed hawks (Buteo jamaicensis)
herring gulls (Larus argentatus)
red foxes (Vulpes vulpes)
weasels (Mustelidae)
feral dogs (Canis lupus familiaris)
muskrats (Ondatra zibethicus) ...
Prairie Falcon paler and more brown, has dark "armpits."
American Kestrel much smaller and has a double facial stripe.
Merlin smaller and slimmer, and has only a very weak facial stripe.
Gyrfalcon, Falco rusticolus
Prairie Falcon, Falco mexicanus
Peregrine Falcon or "Duck Hawk", Falco peregrinus ...
Avian predators include prairie falcons, golden eagles, and a variety of hawks.
Historically, prairie dogs were vilified by ranchers, and efforts were made to eradicate entire populations.
Nesting distribution and population census of Golden Eagles, Prairie Falcons, Mountain Plovers, and Long-billed Curlews in Cimarron County, Oklahoma. Unpublished report, George Miksch Sutton Avian Research Center, Inc., Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
see falcon.
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Falcon - common name for members of the Falconidae, a heterogeneous family of long-winged birds of prey closely related to the hawk. Falcons and the prairie falcon. Falcons build no nests but lay their eggs o...
It is a member of the Falconid family, which also includes the American kestrel, merlin, prairie falcon and gyrfalcon.
The bill is yellow, the iris of the eyes are lemon yellow, and the length is 16" (about the size of a Prairie Falcon).
Females can mate for only a few hours a year, shortly after they emerge from hibernation. After mating (in the burrow) males guard the females from other males, which exposes the males to predation by prairie falcons and goshawks.
* Prairie Falcon, Falco mexicanus
* Red-footed Falcon, Falco vespertinus
* Red-necked Falcon, Falco chicquera
* Saker Falcon, Falco cherrug
* Seychelles Kestrel, Falco araea
* Sooty Falcon, Falco concolor ...
 See also: Falcon, Peregrine Falcon, Peregrine, Kestrel, American Kestrel
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