General Characteristics

Size - Length  - 16 to 19 inches long

wingspan -  39 to 42 inches

weight -  2 pounds

Description : Peregrine Falcon are falcons that are about the size of a crow, with slim wings that taper to pointed tips. In flight, the wings angle back at the wrists and the wing beats are rapid. Although the plumage of male and female adults is similar, females are always larger. Adults are black, white and slate gray overall, with a white breast and heavily barred underparts. Bold "cheek-wedges" below each eye form a distinctive black helmet over the head. Juveniles are brown and beige, with dark, heavily streaked underparts. The legs are yellow and tipped in razor sharp talons, that along with the toothed-beak, are adapted to rip and tear meat.
 

Range - The Peregrine Falcon lives in Alaska and the Canadian Arctic, south through the mountainous west, sparingly in the east, wintering coastally, north to British Columbia and every continent plus some oceanic and coastal islands. 

Habitat - They live in Tundra's savannas, seacoasts, mountains, and tall buildings except rainforests and frigid arctic regions.

Food -This falcon species eats almost exclusively on birds such as doves, pigeons, shorebirds, waterfowl, passerines, small "reptiles" such as lizards and mammals.

Status - A few thousand in the wild

Reason for this status -This is because of habitat destruction and people killing them for their nests.

What type of bird is it - Carnivores

Gestation -  90 days

Longevity - 17 years