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Is that a Peregrine Falcon?

My nephew was a little scared 9 years ago when we walked a trail in Down's Park along the Chesapeake Bay and came across two cages with hawks/falcons in them. This one's the Peregrine Falcon, a slightly small cousin of the hawk, a common one here that often builds nests on Baltimore skyscrapers and goes after pigeons of small seagulls:

 

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3 minutes ago, MickinMD said:

Is that a Peregrine Falcon?

My nephew was a little scared 9 years ago when we walked a trail in Down's Park along the Chesapeake Bay and came across two cages with hawks/falcons in them. This one's the Peregrine Falcon, a slightly small cousin of the hawk, a common one here that often builds nests on Baltimore skyscrapers and goes after pigeons of small seagulls:

 

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The falconer said it was a juvenile Red Tailed Hawk.  I thought I posted that earlier but I guess not.

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1 hour ago, ChrisL said:

The falconer said it was a juvenile Red Tailed Hawk.  I thought I posted that earlier but I guess not.

A girl on Emm's softball team, her dad is a falconer.  Hunt's with them and that's what he uses.  His daughter posts videos of these things landing on her arm and it kinda freaks me out a little.  We need her arm as our #2 catcher!

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