Labels:animal | bird | earth | falcon | fence | grass | pigeon hawk | plaything | poster | sculpture | shelf | sky OCR: Merlin Falco columbarius This IS a small falcon of open country or forested edge Although about the same size as an Ameri rican Kestrel, the Merlin IS a bird-hunter, taking whatever small bird is locally abundant. There are three races which are often visually distinguis chable The Merlin has diagnostic deeee flight patterr with strong wing beats IEIS also very especially the nest pue very pugnacious often attacking pue harassing other birds, even other bris of prey The Merin is the second smallest falcon in North America and one of the smallest hawks Females are noticeably larger than i males Averages: Females wingspan 25 in length in weight OZ Males wingspan 22 ir length 10 in. weight 5.4 oZ Depending on race the male has pale frern-anq (Prairie [ace] medium blue-gray race] or blackish [ ...
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