Peregrine Falcon
Peregrine Falcon
The peregrine has strong beak and claw. It can hunt at air and land. Peregrine could attack the pigeon in the air. Therefore, the pigeon owner often shoots the light before they release the pigeon. The light could freight the peregrine. In my country, the pigeon owner uses a twister at the tail of pigeon. This way is quite success to freight the peregrine.
The male peregrine is smaller than the hen peregrine. The cock weight only 440 - 750 g meanwhile the hen could reach to 1500g. The size of peregrine ranging 35 cm - 49 cm and wingspan of around 80 - 120 cm. The feather of the cock is brightener than the hen. The hen breeds two to five eggs per season. The egg color is white or whites the buff. Both cock and hen will keep the eggs together. The peregrine makes a nest in high mount, cliff edges, or high place. In one nest, the average of peregrine parent has 2.5 chick.
After one year, the parent will let the son go. The peregrine kid will find the pair and make nest together.
We can hear the peregrine from the far, it sound kek kek kek. You may not as if this sound but it depicts the peregrine braveness.
Today DDT threads the peregrine. The DDT or insecticide could harm for their lives. Other threat is the wild animal trade. The peregrine demand in black market is large too. The peregrine catch will decrease the peregrine in the wild world.
On the other hand, the peregrine in bred is very large. The farmer breeds the peregrine and sells the peregrine to the pet lovers. They use peregrine to hunt the small mammals like rabbit or small bird.
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- ANDRI ANDRI Jan 7, 2009 @ 9:10 am | in reply to jt
- surely its a peregrine. would you please give the pictures name?
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- jt jt Jan 6, 2009 @ 11:11 pm
- This is a HORRIBLE article, and the bird pictured above isn't even a peregrine!
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- ANDRI ANDRI Dec 23, 2008 @ 9:44 am | in reply to ElizabethJeanAllen
- thanks
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- ANDRI ANDRI Dec 23, 2008 @ 9:44 am | in reply to ElizabethJeanAllen
- thanks
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- CoolFoto CoolFoto Dec 22, 2008 @ 9:18 pm
- Hi thanks for visiting my Hawk Bird of Prey lens www.squidoo.com/hawkbirds . 5* to you.
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- ElizabethJeanAllen ElizabethJeanAllen Jul 21, 2008 @ 5:13 am
- Peregrine Falcons are beautiful birds as are most birds of prey.
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Peregrine Falcon from Wikipedia
The Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus), also known simply as the Peregrine, and historically as the "Duck Hawk" in North America, is a cosmopolitan bird of prey in the family Falconidae. It is a large, crow-sized falcon, with a blue-gray back, barred white underparts, and a black head and "moustache". It can reach speeds over in a stoop, making it the fastest animal in the world. As is common with bird-eating raptors, the female is much bigger than the male. Experts recognize 17?19 subspecies, which vary in appearance and range; there is disagreement over whether the distinctive Barbary Falcon is a subspecies or a distinct species.
The Peregrine's breeding range includes land regions from the Arctic tundra to the Tropics. It can be found nearly everywhere on Earth, except extreme polar regions, very high mountains, and most tropical rainforests; the only major ice-free landmass from which it is entirely absent is New Zealand. This makes it the world's most widespread bird of prey. Both the English and scientific names of this species mean "wandering falcon", referring to the migratory habits of many northern populations.
While its diet consists almost exclusively of medium-sized birds, the Peregrine will occasionally hunt small mammals, small reptiles or even insects. It reaches sexual maturity at one year, and mates for life. It nests in a scrape, normally on cliff edges or, in recent times, on tall human-made structures. The Peregrine Falcon became an endangered species in many areas due to the use of pesticides, especially DDT. Since the ban on DDT from the beginning of the 1970s onwards, the populations recovered, supported by large scale protection of nesting places and releases to the wild.
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