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re:Prairie or Peregrine Falcon? - 2006/12/15 08:19
Hawks frequently aren't easy IDs. Not having experience with Peregrines made that even tougher for you - once you see a few it will get easier.
This reminds me of a funny story. A few months ago during nesting season, a local (but still sizeable with wide circulation) paper ran a big story on the front of a section about how this suburban family had Peregrine falcons nesting in a tree in their backyard. They had all kinds of people quoted in the article, going on and on about how fast Peregrines were, etc. etc. It had a bunch of pictures accompanying it. The birds were very clearly Cooper's Hawks. How everybody got this wrong or failed to check it out, I don't know. Peregrines don't even nest in trees. Our local birding crew got a chuckle out of it when someone brought the paper along. One of them had contacted the paper to correct them, and they got rather upset with him and did NOT want to hear that these were not Peregrines.
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