Prairie Falcon Identifying Features

Adult
Photo courtesy Cascades Raptor Center
white cheek
brown auricular patch
narrow dark malar mark
white supercilium
yellow cere
Photo courtesy Cascades Raptor Center
brown upperparts
with cross bars

(Photo of underside of wing needed)

dark medial coverts (‘armpits’) on underside of wing
Photo by Sallie Reynolds
faintly banded pale tail
(bands not evident in this photo)
with narrow white tip
tail usually lighter than wings
Photo by Sallie Reynolds
tomial tooth
Juvenile
Photo by Sallie Reynolds
bluish beak
pale yellow cere (bluish at fledging)
narrow dark malar mark
white supercilium
Photo courtesy Cascades Raptor Center
brown upperparts
with pale edges on coverts
Photo courtesy Cascades Raptor Center
brown tail
with wide white tip