The Peregrine Falcon

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The Peregrine Falcon

• By Abby Diaz, Elizabeth Womack, Alta Benton

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Description

• Species name
• Peregrine Falcon (Falco Peregrinus)
• Weight
• Males are around 1.4 or1.9 pounds
• Females are about 1.14 or 2.11 pounds
• Length
• 15-20 inches
• Wingspan
• 43-46 inches
• Appearance
• Adults have long pointed wings long rounded tail
  with black bands. On the back they appear to be
  blue and gray, on the under side they are white
  with brown stripes.
• Life Expectancy
• 17-20 years

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Habitat

• Food Source
• Pigeons, crows, jays, waterfowls, starlings, and
  other medium small birds.
• They live in open country in the coastal low
  lands, in the mountainous high country.

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Endangered (when why)

• Reason
• Is because of a pesticide called DDT which was
  used to prevent grasshoppers and other bugs from
  eating the crops. Then it caused a chain
  reaction.
• This is what happened
• DDT was sprayed gt bugs get infected gt birds eat
  infected bugs gt birds become infected gt Falcon
  eats infected birds gt Falcons die
• When
• 1970

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Intersecting Fact

• When it attacks its prey it plunges towards it
  at about 175 miles per hour.

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Action Plan

• Think of other ways to keep chemicals
  environmentally safe so the birds and other
  animals dont get hurt by the chemicals.

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Letter to the Leader

• Dear Henry Cuellar,
• Weve conducted studies on Texas Endangered
  Species. Our group of three was assigned to
  create a project on the Peregrine Falcon which is
  a amazing creature. So we have concluded that if
  we have more environmentally safe pesticides we
  can prevent the Falcon and other creatures from
  being abolished from our world.
• Sincerely,
• Abby Diaz, Elizabeth Womack, Alta
  Benton

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bibliography

• http//www.ct.gov/dep/cwp/view.asp?q326058