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The aplomado falcon's habitat is dry grasslands, savannahs, marshes, and, in Brazil, is commonly observed in some large cities, such as São Paulo. [citation needed] It ranges from northern Mexico and Trinidad locally to southern South America, but has been extirpated from many places in its range, including all of northern and central Mexico except for a small area of Chihuahua.
Eurasian peregrine falcon: Falco peregrinus peregrinus: Europe, Eurasia south to Africa and Middle East: E Northern aplomado falcon: Falco femoralis septentrionalis: U.S. (AZ, NM, TX), Mexico, Guatemala: E Laysan finch (honeycreeper) Telespiza cantans: U.S. (HI) E Nihoa finch (honeycreeper) Telespiza ultima: U.S. (HI) E Euler's flycatcher ...
The Peregrine Fund currently has two recovery projects in the United States: The Aplomado falcon in Texas and the California condor in northern Arizona. Aplomado falcons were once widespread in the American Southwest but habitat changes, pesticides and human persecution restricted their range to a few areas in Mexico by the 1950s. The Peregrine ...
Many parrots are vividly colored, and some are multi-colored. In size they range from 8 cm (3.1 in) to 1 m (3.3 ft) in length. Most of the more than 150 species in this family are found in the New World. Monk parakeet, Myiopsitta monachus (I) Orange-fronted parakeet, Eupsittula canicularis (I) Brown-throated parakeet, Eupsittula pertinax (I)
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The bat falcon was long known as Falco albigularis; the names Falco fusco-coerulescens or Falco fuscocaerulescens, long used for the aplomado falcon (F. femoralis), are now believed to refer to the present species. [5] The bat falcon has these three subspecies: [2] F. r. petoensis Chubb, 1918; F. r. rufigularis Daudin, 1800; F. r. ophryophanes ...
The Gore Range was named in honor of Sir George Gore arising from a hunting expedition led by Jim Bridger (1804–1881), an early trapper and explorer of the Rocky Mountains. Bridger documented the Great Salt Lake in 1824 and guided westward settlers through Bridger Pass in 1850, shortening the Oregon Trail by 61 miles (98 km).
The Never Summer Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located immediately west of Rocky Mountain National Park in the Never Summer Mountains of Arapaho National Forest in northern Colorado. It encompasses an area of 21,090 acres (32.95 square miles) and includes both forest and alpine tundra, with a minimum elevation of 8,900 feet. [ 2 ]