Familiy: Falconidae
Falcons are intelligent birds of prey with pointed wings, notches in their bills called a tomial tooth, nostrils that baffle air and they are all diurnal.
Title: Urban Merlin in a pear tree
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 2/14/2024
Title: Urban adult female Merlin
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 2/14/2024
Title: Stern looking female Merlin
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 2/14/2024
Title: Merlin adult female in winter
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 2/14/2024
Title: Female Merlin after bumping another Merlin off of this tree
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 2/14/2024
Title: Merlin female on a pear tree
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 2/14/2024
Title: Female Merlin with her eye on me
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 2/14/2024
Title: Female Merlin of the Taiga subspecies
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 2/14/2024
Title: Female Merlin perched in a pear tree
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 2/14/2024
Title: Male Belted Kingfisher bothering a Merlin
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 10/9/2023
Title: American Kestrel Get Off My Lawn look
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/10/2023
Title: Female American Kestrel gazing off into the distance
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 1/12/2023
Title: Saucy looking female American Kestrel
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 1/12/2023
Title: Tree top American Kestrel female
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 1/12/2023
Title: Female American Kestrel on a tree top
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 1/12/2023
Title: Winter female American Kestrel on a nest box
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 12/29/2022
Title: Female American Kestrel on a snowy light
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/8/2022
Title: Male Prairie Merlin on a wooden post
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 1/27/2022
Title: Adult male Prairie Merlin
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 1/27/2022
Title: Stretching male American Kestrel in a Russian Olive
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 12/3/2021
Title: Merlin on a large wooden post
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 12/3/2021
Title: Subadult Peregrine Falcon calling from a wooden perch
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/19/2021
Title: Subadult Peregrine Falcon lifting off from a fence post
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/19/2021
Title: Subadult Peregrine Falcon in the West Desert
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/19/2021
Title: Subadult Peregrine Falcon in flight
Location: West Desert, Tooele County, Utah
Date: 5/19/2021
Title: Female American Kestrel lifting off
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/2/2021
Title: Adult female American Kestrel perched on a wildflower stalk
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/2/2021
Title: Adult female American Kestrel back view
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/2/2021