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Rewilding the Detroit, Michigan, USA–Windsor, Ontario, Canada Metropolitan Area
Published 2023-10-01“…Rewilding of the Detroit, Michigan, USA and Windsor, Ontario, Canada metropolitan area, and its shared natural resource called the Detroit River, has been delineated through the reintroduction of peregrine falcons and osprey, and a return of other sentinel species like bald eagles, lake sturgeon, lake whitefish, walleye, beaver, and river otter. …”
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Attack strategies in birds of prey
Published 2016“…This amounts to a pure pursuit course, meaning the bird maintains a heading angle of zero at all times (its velocity vector points at the target). Peregrine falcons were found to use a variety of values of <em>N</em> resulting in a quicker path to interception.…”
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Has the Australian Endemic Grey Falcon the Most Extreme Dietary Specialization among all <i>Falco</i> Species?
Published 2022-06-01“…Further, we compared the diets of all <i>Falco</i> species and found that the dietary specialization is most extreme in the Grey Falcon, more so than even in the Taita (<i>F. fasciinucha</i>) and Peregrine Falcons (<i>F. peregrinus</i>). Based on aspects of the species’ environment and relative prey availability, we offer an evolutionary explanation of the apparently unique dietary specialization of the arid-adapted Grey Falcon.…”
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Causes, temporal trends, and the effects of urbanization on admissions of wild raptors to rehabilitation centers in England and Wales
Published 2022-04-01“…Relative to the proportion of breeding individuals in Britain and Ireland, Peregrine Falcons (Falco peregrinus), Little Owls (Athene noctua), and Western Barn Owls (Tyto alba) were over‐represented in the admissions data by 103%, 73%, and 69%, respectively. …”
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A monitoring framework for assessing threats to nonbreeding shorebirds on the Pacific Coast of the Americas
Published 2020-12-01“…As for threats, we found, contrary to our hypothesis, that shorebird abundance was significantly, and positively, associated, with the density of Peregrine Falcons (Falco peregrinus); however we found no relationship between shorebird abundance and the amount of urban development, our index to potential human disturbance, in the surrounding landscape. …”
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