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- Aplomado Falcon (15-16.5” with 40-48” wingspan) Mexico to Central and South America, TX
- Gyrfalcon (20-25” with 50-64” wingspan – largest of the falcons) – Arctic tundra-winter seen in upper Midwest, Dakotas, Montana, Idaho and Washington – Flies close to the ground.
- Peregrine Falcon (16-20” with 36-44” wingspan – large falcon)
- Prairie Falcon (15.5-19.5” with 35-43” wingspan)
- Merlin (12” with 25” wingspan)
- Collared Forest-Falcon (21-25” with 30-37” wingspan) (Accidental-South Texas)
- American Kestrel (10.5” with 23” wingspan – Smallest falcon)
- Eurasian Kestrel (13.5”with 29” wingspan Hovers) – Mass, NJ, N Brunswick and Aleutian Islands of Alaska
- Prairie Falcon by DanCrested Caracara (23” with 50” wingspan) – TX and FL, Prairie region of central FL, open arid and semiarid scrublands, grassland w/ few trees, ranchland
- Eurasian Hobby (11-13” with 28-33” wingspan) – Europe and Asia, Africa (winters) very rare in North America Captures prey in the air.
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“Falcons and caracaras are carnivores, feeding on birds, small mammals, reptiles, insects and carrion.”,
And these you shall regard as an abomination among the birds; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard, the kite, and the falcon after its kind (Leviticus 11:13-14 NKJV)
the red kite, the falcon, and the kite after their kinds; (Deuteronomy 14:13 NKJV)
You shall fall upon the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. (Ezekiel 39:4 NKJV)
Photos top to bottom: American Kestrel by AestheticPhotos, Praire Falcon by Dan, Peregrine Falcon by Jim Fenton
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