Prairie Falcon Identifying Features

Adult

Photo courtesy Cascades Raptor Center
white cheek
brown auricular patch
narrow dark malar mark
white supercilium
yellow cere


Photo courtesy Cascades Raptor Center
brown upperparts
with cross bars



(Photo of underside of wing needed)




dark medial coverts (‘armpits’) on underside of wing


Photo by Sallie Reynolds
faintly banded pale tail
(bands not evident in this photo)
with narrow white tip
tail usually lighter than wings


Photo by Sallie Reynolds
tomial tooth


Juvenile

Photo by Sallie Reynolds
bluish beak
pale yellow cere (bluish at fledging)
narrow dark malar mark
white supercilium


Photo courtesy Cascades Raptor Center
brown upperparts with pale edges on coverts


Photo courtesy Cascades Raptor Center
brown tail with wide white tip


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