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Peregrine, from the Latin Peregrinus is a given name and a surname. Other forms include Peregrino , Perregrine and Peregrin . The word peregrine originally meant "foreign", from the Latin peregrinus .
The peregrine is a highly successful example of urban wildlife in much of its range, taking advantage of tall buildings as nest sites and an abundance of prey such as pigeons and ducks. Both the English and scientific names of this species mean "wandering falcon", referring to the migratory habits of many northern
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Several peregrine subspecies were included in the breeding stock, including birds of Eurasian origin. Due to the extirpation of the eastern subspecies ( Falco peregrinus anatum ), its near extirpation in the Midwest, and the limited gene pool within North American breeding stock, the inclusion of non-native subspecies was justified to optimize ...
The origin of today's major Falco groups—the "typical" hobbies and kestrels, for example, or the peregrine-hierofalcon complex, or the aplomado falcon lineage—can be quite confidently placed from the Miocene-Pliocene boundary through the Zanclean and Piacenzian and just into the Gelasian, that is from 2.4 to 5.3 Mya, when the malar-striped ...
In the 1st and 2nd centuries, the vast majority (80–90%) of the empire's inhabitants were peregrini.By 49 BC, all Italians were Roman citizens. [Note 1] Outside Italy, those provinces with the most intensive Roman colonisation over the approximately two centuries of Roman rule probably had a Roman citizen majority by the end of Augustus' reign: Gallia Narbonensis (southern France), Hispania ...
Although the term "bird of prey" could theoretically be taken to include all birds that actively hunt and eat other animals, [4] ornithologists typically use the narrower definition followed in this page, [5] excluding many piscivorous predators such as storks, cranes, herons, gulls, skuas, penguins, and kingfishers, as well as many primarily ...
Shahin is Male or Female given name which is the Persian term for hawk or falcon, specifically the peregrine falcon.The name Shahin is a composite of two nouns: "shah" – king and "īn" – a sign of proportion, freedom, or "royal"; thus literally "king of the birds".