Peregrine falcon

This fact sheet describes the peregrine falcon in North America. It outlines the history of the bird, its decline in the mid-twentieth century due to DDT, and its successful recovery in the years since.
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Falcon with grey plumage, grey cheek patches, and yellow and grey beak in mid-flight.

Medium to large falcon, with bluish-gray upperparts (becoming more blackish on head) in adults, variable-width blackish facial stripe extending down from eye across malar, this stripe usually set off by pale auriculars or "cheek," but pattern sometimes obscured if cheek all dark; underparts...

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Raptors
Migratory birds
Birds