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The return of "Digit". I am quite sure that this is the same female Prairie Falcon that we first noticed in 2017 at the Alberta Grain Terminal. She has one talon on the right leg that is unbendable perhaps due to an old injury.
She caught a Pigeon and ate it out of sight on the roof of a nearby building. I got this shot as she flew off with an obvious full crop.
The light was very poor for flight shots, but we will get more chances.
Alberta Grain Terminal. Edmonton, Alberta.
This falcon lost its meal after a conflict in flight with another falcon. Too bad I missed the shots.
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Powerful and fast-flying, the Peregrine Falcon hunts medium-sized birds, dropping down on them from high above in a spectacular stoop. They were virtually eradicated from eastern North America by pesticide poisoning in the middle 20th century. After significant recovery efforts, Peregrine Falcons have made an incredible rebound and are now regularly seen in many large cities and coastal areas.
This Female is refusing to share her catch with her mate. The male waited for a long period of time before approaching for his share. The setting is high up on the girders of a Hydro Tower.
Watched this falcon trying to catch pigeons at the AGT in Edmonton, 5 image sequence. His talons just missed the body and only clipping the wing.
Male Peregrine Falcon does a fly-by trying to get the attention of a nearby female (it didn't work).
The Bat Falcon is a widespread small falcon of forest and clearings in the Neotropics. It occurs from Mexico south to northwestern Peru and, east of the Andes, northern Argentina. It is dark slate gray above, with an obvious white throat, black-and-white barred breast, and orange lower belly and thighs. Bat Falcons can be distinguished from the similar and sympatric (but much rarer) Orange-breasted Falcon (Falco deiroleucus) by their smaller size, more compact structure, narrower white barring on the lower breast, and more restricted orange on the upper breast. Bat Falcons generally hunt around dawn and dusk at forest edge or over the canopy, often along rivers or road cuts, or at the edges of small crop fields. As the name implies, they feed on bats, but also prey on birds and insects (mostly aerial). They nest in adopted cavities, on cliffs, or on man-made structures and defend their territory aggressively. doi.org/10.2173/bow.batfal1.01
Picture taken at Legado das Aguas - SP
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Captured him/her outside of my window today, what a beutifull bird, unfortunately light was on the wrong side ))
One of the juvenile Peregrine Falcons learning about flying. Took a short flight to this guardrail then inched its way along a 100' stretch afraid to fly. It managed to make its way back to safety eventually.
The background is the rocks and Pacific ocean, not the sky.
Peregrine Falcon
Falco peregrinus
Member of the Nature’s Spirit
Good Stewards of Nature
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Brown Falcon, Falco berigora
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... when I looked back up again moments later, the Heron was gone and Cassia, of Cinnamon was settling on to the branch.
Yes, I am standing on the trunk of a 1968 Chrysler 300 convertible to get this shot of a 1962 Ford Falcon ~ Ancramdale, NY
Peregrine Falcons
Turcot Interchange
Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Nikon D7000 f/6 1/1000 sec. +3 step 350mm ISO-200
It’s always exciting when you capture a photo of a Peregrine falcon. We don’t see many Peregrine Falcons due to their numbers just beginning to rebound as late as the mid 1990’s after abuse of the use of DDT. Due to diligent conservation and recovery efforts, the species was federally delisted in 1999 and was delisted in California in 2009.The Peregrine is renowned for its speed. It can reach over 200 mph during its characteristic hunting stoop (high-speed dive), making it the fastest member of the animal kingdom. This speed demon was taking a break, thus making him an easy subject.
Meet the male peregrine, Odin, who has joined up with Maxine. It was good for me to see him close up hanging out on the ocean cliffs over the Blue Pacific. In fact, that's the ocean blue with an incoming wave below. The crows were feeling frisky on this morning, so he's giving them a good eye.
A Caspian Tern showed its displeasure when a male Peregrine Falcon flew by with a bird in his talon. The Falcon went upside down to counter the attack from the Tern. From the color of it I don't think that the Falcon had one of the Tern chicks, but no birds want a raptor in their midst and so the attack. To be fair, the falcon was on its way to feed one of his two chicks. Burlington, Ontario.