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: Adult Prairie Falcon resting on a rock
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 10/7/2012
Title: Peregrine Falcon – Escaped Falconry Bird – sighted September 17, 2012
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/17/2012
Title: Prairie Falcon lift off #2
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 3/5/2012
Title: Prairie Falcon lift off #1
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 3/5/2012
Title: Female American Kestrel almost done with lunch
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/2/2012
Title: American Kestrel female downing her lunch
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/2/2012
Title: Female American Kestrel getting a grip
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/2/2012
Title: Lunch on the fly? I got it!
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/2/2012
Title: Female American Kestrel struggling in the wind
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/2/2012
Title: More balancing
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/2/2012
Title: Female American Kestrel balancing in the wind
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/2/2012
Title: Lunch time!
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/2/2012
Title: Putting everything into her meal
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/2/2012
Title: Kestrel tearing the vole
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/2/2012
Title: Female American Kestrel and her fuzzy beak
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/2/2012
Title: Female American Kestrel stretching out her prey
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/2/2012
Title: Female American Kestrel bending over her prey
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/2/2012
Title: Female American Kestrel getting rid of the vole’s intestines
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/2/2012
Title: She is really tugging hard
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/2/2012
Title: She has an appetite
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/2/2012
Title: A kestrel with a beak full of prey
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/2/2012
Title: Kestrel with her prey
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/2/2012
Title: Female American Kestrel eating a vole
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/2/2012
Title: American Kestrel really tugging at the vole
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 2/2/2012
Title: American Kestrel near Frary Peak Trail
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 1/31/2012
Title: High key Merlin
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 1/23/2012
Title: High key Merlin at Farmington Bay WMA
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 1/23/2012
Title: Merlin on a snowy and foggy morning
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 1/23/2012