True Falcons

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Category Description:

Members of the family Falconidae, True Falcons include Kestrels, Gyrfalcons, and Merlins, as well as Peregrine, Aplomado, Teita, and Prairie Falcons.

Sites and pages listed here explore taxonomy, characteristics, diet, hunting, reproduction, locations and habitats, social structure, threats, and status.

  • Amazing Animals: Hobby Falcon  - Brief article contains profile and diaries for zoo specimen, habitat, diet, and PDF factsheet. From Australia Zoo.
  • Aplomado Falcon (Falco femoralis)  - From The Peregrine Fund, details images, distribution map, characteristics, habitat reintroduction, primary diet, clutch size, source of names, population, and habits.
  • Bird Guide: Hobby  - Provides sound clips, Latin name, family, illustrations, size, flight, where and when in the UK, diet, population, seasonal distribution, and similar birds.
  • Caracaras and Falcons  - Describes the four Sonoran species, including size differences, nesting, flight, distinguishing features, sounds, diet, behavior, and life history.
  • GVAS Rochester Falconcam  - Perched atop the Powers Building in downtown Rochester, this cam follows the nesting of the newly hatched birds each year.
  • Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus)  - The Peregrine Fund describes characteristics, distribution and habitats, diet and hunting behavior, clutch and incubation, common and scientific names, and use in falconry.
  • Hobby (Falco subbuteo)  - Discusses nesting, size, appearance, locations, food, status, alarm call, and status of population. Includes pictures.
  • Peregrine Fund: Teita Falcon (Falco fasciinucha)  - Contains measurements, pictures, habitat, map of distribution, hunting style, breeding details, names and derivation, flight, and coloring differences.
  • Prairie Falcon (Falco mexicanus)  - Images and range map support description and seasonal location information. Includes similar species, nesting, bathing, other names, and population status.
  • The Raptor Center: Gyrfalcon  - Reports coloring, names, locations, habitat, nesting, feeding habits, center data, and status.
  • Raptor Resource Project: Falcon Facts  - Discusses name, subspecies, threats, life cycle, development, size, flight, falconry, history, and behavior.
  • The Raptor Trust: Falcons  - Contains three species' adaptations, appearance, hunting behavior and prey, nesting, size and coloring, migration, and populations in New Jersey.
  • Red-footed Falcon (Falco vespertinus)  - Presents classification, status, locations, appearance, size, social structure, nesting, and related species.
 
 
 
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