peregrine

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A 60% mortality rate in the first year means it's a "tough gig" being a young peregrine falcon, Dr Hurley observes, adding that such a rate is common among predators.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2025

Sequoia National Park is home to the world’s largest trees and iconic birds including peregrine falcons and bald eagles.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2025

"Those birds, in turn, then provide a food source for some of the more charismatic birds, like peregrine falcons or kestrels."

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2025

She compares him to a peregrine falcon because “his frame rate operates at an entirely different speed to everybody else’s.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2025

The last of the vanishing eastern peregrine falcons breed in Greenland and Canada, and a few winter as far south as the Catskills.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George