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A prairie falcon in Arizona. The prairie falcon (Falco mexicanus) is a medium-large sized falcon of western North America.It is about the size of a peregrine falcon or a crow, with an average length of 40 cm (16 in), wingspan of approximately 1 meter (40 in), and average weight of 720 g (1.6 lb).
The peregrine falcon belongs to a genus whose lineage includes the hierofalcons [note 1] and the prairie falcon (F. mexicanus). This lineage probably diverged from other falcons towards the end of the Late Miocene or in the Late Pliocene , about 3–8 million years ago (mya).
In 1986, a lost captive-bred female prairie falcon (which had been cross-fostered by an adult peregrine in captivity) mated with a wild male peregrine in Utah. The prairie falcon was trapped and the eggs removed, incubated, and hatched, and the hybrid offspring were given to falconers. The wild peregrine paired with another peregrine the next year.
A peregrine falcon hatched in 2023 in Port Washington was found in December in Nicaragua, after a journey of more than 2,000 miles.
The peregrine falcon was removed from the federal endangered species list in 1999 although it continues to be protected under the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act. It is still listed as a species ...
Peregrine falcon (state raptor) Falco peregrinus: 2004 [63] Massachusetts: Wild turkey (state game bird) Meleagris gallopavo: 1991 [64] Mississippi: Wood duck (state waterfowl) Aix sponsa: 1974 [65] Missouri: Bobwhite quail (state game bird) Colinus virginianus: 2007 [66] New Hampshire: Red-tailed hawk (state raptor) Buteo jamaicensis: 2019 [67 ...
Nonetheless, a core group containing the peregrine and Barbary falcons, which, in turn, group with the hierofalcon and the more distant prairie falcon (which was sometimes placed with the hierofalcon, though it is entirely distinct biogeographically), as well as at least most of the "typical" hobbies, are confirmed to be monophyletic as suspected.
Falconidae is a family of diurnal birds of prey and includes caracaras, laughing falcon, forest falcons, falconets, pygmy falcons, falcons and kestrels.They are small to medium-sized birds of prey, ranging in size from the black-thighed falconet, which can weigh as little as 35 grams (1.2 oz), to the gyrfalcon, which can weigh as much as 1,735 grams (61.2 oz).