Peregrine+Falcon

media type="custom" key="3681001" By Jordan H.



In adult sized Peregrine Falcon it has a blue-gray wings, dark brown back, a buff colored under side and a white face with a black tear stripe on its cheek. Also they have a hooked streaks talens. And the Peregrines Falcons length is about 15-21 inches with a wingspan of 3.5 feet. Also the Peregrine Falcons weight is 2 pounds, except females are larger than males. There is as many as 1,650 breeding pairs in the United States and Canada. Perigrine Falcons adapted to living in many cities and making use of tall buildings that provide suitable ledges for nesting and depend on the large populations of pigeons and starlings in cities for food. Other birds such as songbirds and ducks and occasionally bats. They catch their prey in mid-air. In the use of DDT and DDE are a break down product of DDT effect eggshell thinning, causeing in the eggshall to break while being incubated. Still today DDT is still found in some areas and DDT is used in countries where the Perigrine Falcon winters. We can save the Perigrin Falcon bystopping the usage of DDT and DDE so that it doesn't effect the eggshell of Perigrine Falcons and another way that we can save them from extinction is by adopting a Perigrine Falcon.