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Prairie Falcon

Falco mexicanus ORDER: FALCONIFORMES FAMILY: FALCONIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

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A large falcon of the arid American West, the Prairie Falcon hunts medium-sized birds and mammals.

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Calls

  • Calls
    Recorded by Robert C. Stein, Robert B. Angstadt
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Call a shrill, yelping "kik, kik, kik."

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