Prairie Falcon - Falco mexicanus

Description

• Sandy brown and faintly barred above, cream and lightly streaked and spotted below
• Dominant black moustache markings
• Dark wing markings when viewed flying

Size

• Length: 17-20"

Range

• Dry plains and desert cliffs
• Central British Columbia, northern Alberta and Saskatchewan and western North Dakota, south to Baja California, Mexico and to southern Arizona and New Mexico and northern Texas
• Winters in Mexico

Diet

• Small and medium-sized birds and mammals
• Occasionally. lizards and large insects

Voice

• "kik-kik-kik-kik-kik'"
• Whining "kruk"

Nesting

• Nest is a depression in soil or gravel, on a ledge, or in an abandoned nest of another
• Lay 3-6 pinkish eggs spotted with brown and purple
• Eggs incubate for 30 days
• Fledgelings leave the nest at 40 days after hatching

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