peregrine
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At the Houses of Parliament, he holds a peregrine falcon chick while it is ringed for identification.
From BBC • Dec. 18, 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
You might spot a peregrine falcon or other raptor, including kestrels, which nest there.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2024
As a hot dry wind clears the air, I can see Frightful, my peregrine falcon, sitting in front of the six-foot-in- diameter hemlock tree that I hollowed out for a home.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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