IWRC Raptor ID Series
 
Prairie Falcon Characteristics
 
 
Adults
          
 
 
 


 
white cheek
brown auricular patch
narrow dark malar mark
white supercilium
  
brown upperparts
with gray bars
  
faintly banded pale tail
(bands not evident in this photo)
tomial tooth
             
 
Juveniles
          
 
         
 
bluish beak and cere
          
          auricular patch = area over ear
supercilium = eyebrow
malar mark = lower jaw area, below eye
tomial tooth=notch on upper mandible of falcons
 
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