Known from the discs' own bird lists
Peregrine Falcon
falco peregrinus
Falconidae
- Disc 2 · 2001 listed
- Disc 3 · 2006 listed
- Disc 1 · 2011 listed
The detailed account of this bird below comes from Disc 1 · 2011. The other discs list the bird but carry no account of it, and none is invented here.
From the original Disc 1 · 2011 revision
Detailed account — Disc 1 · 2011
This detailed account first appears in the 2011 Disc 1 revision; the earlier releases have no account for this bird.
Description Disc 1 · 2011
39-50 cm. The proverbial falcon. Cosmopolitan with the widest distribution latitudinally of any bird. The adult has a black top of head and hindneck; sides of head extensively black; mantle, wing coverts, secondaries, and back to tail coverts light bluish gray, barred with fuscous; primaries sooty black, with white elliptical bars on the inner webs; tail light bluish gray, narrowly tipped white and evenly barred with black; underparts creamy white to light buff, immmaculate to breast, the remainder barred with black; iris dark brown; bare orbit, cere, and legs bright yellow; bill bluish slate, tipped black
The adult female is similar, but usually darker and with heavier ventral barring.
The immature is fuscous brown above with buffy feather edgings; below buff with heavy black streaks; undertail coverts barred; cere greenish; legs pale bluish.
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Adult Disc 1 · 2011 -
Immature Disc 1 · 2011
Each plate is labelled with the disc's own caption.
The account, continued
Voice Disc 1 · 2011
A rather coarse "jekjekjekjekjek..."
Behavior Disc 1 · 2011
Usually perch-hunts from a high vantage point or singles out prey while circling around in wide spirals and dives after it with speed reaching frequently 250 km/h.
Habitat and status Disc 1 · 2011
Rare in every type of country with exception of large continuous forest tracts.
Distribution Disc 1 · 2011
Throughout. A straggler from the Northern Hemisphere.
The Disc 2 · 2001 contains no detailed account for this bird (its 2011 account is shown above). None is invented here.
The Disc 3 · 2006 contains no detailed account for this bird (its 2011 account is shown above). None is invented here.
Vocalizations
Each disc's own recording entries are shown under that disc's label. A player appears only where the recording's file survives on a preserved disc.
Disc 1 · 2011
Macaulay 59455, "Wailing call", probably at the nest. Disc 1 · 2011
Europe Disc 1 · 2011
Which discs list this bird
- Disc 2 · 2001 — in this disc's bird list
- Disc 3 · 2006 — in this disc's bird list
- Disc 1 · 2011 — in this disc's bird list
How that was established
- Disc 2 · 2001
aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1- Disc 3 · 2006
aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1- Disc 1 · 2011
aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1
The disc's own record fields that place the bird on its list: a non-empty entry in the species table, and the byte that marks it as selected on a local checklist.
Historical checklist participation
Disc 2 · 2001
Selected on local checklists: JUSB.CKD
Listed on product/edition lists: SEBRAZIL.CKD; SEBZ_D1.CKD
Disc 3 · 2006
Selected on local checklists: JUSB.CKD; MRRB.CKD
Listed on product/edition lists: SEBZ_D1.CKD; Sebrazil.ckd
Disc 1 · 2011
Selected on local checklists: JUSB.CKD; MRRB.CKD
Listed on product/edition lists: SEBZ_D1.CKD; Sebrazil.ckd