Northern aplomado Falcon (Falco femoralis septentrionalis)

Aplomado falcons (Falco femoralis) inhabit desert grasslands and savannas of Latin America, and formerly inhabited desert grasslands and coastal prairies of Texas, New Mexico, and southeastern Arizona. The falcon ranges through most of South America, from Tierra del Fuego to Ecuador and Venezuela, and from near sea level to above 13,000 feet in the Andes, and is also found throughout Mesoamerica. The original description of the northern Aplomado falcon (F. f. septentrionalis) was based on specimens collected in 1887 at Fort Huachuca, AZ.