Labels:bird | earth | falcon | gyrfalcon | peregrine | road | rock | sea | sky | tree | water OCR: Prairie Falcon Falco mexicanus This -wnipau e sized falcon of the open pie country of the west. Its lighter, brown- buff colors match well I with tones of the landscape over which it nests pue hunts This fast flying that nests on cliffs pue engages in hot pursuit of its pret over open country Large blackish patches on the white underwings distinguish this from all other falcons There are no color morphs This IS a medium-sized hawk the second-largest in length of the SIX North American falcons. There no overlap in size or weight between the smaller male 9ui pue larger females Averages Females wingspan 43 in. length 1.7 ir weight 1.9 Males wingspan 37 in length 15 in weight 7.2 narrow black mustache blockish head shape and large eyes are typical. The back pue upperwing are wnipaw brown with ...
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