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Falcon Nest is a detached residence in Prescott, Arizona, that is the tallest single family home in North America at 124 feet (38 m). [1] Its name is attributed to its resemblance to a large mountainside bird's nest and the peregrine falcons that inhabit the area. [2] It is located in Yavapai County, approximately a two-hour drive northwest of Arizona's capitol, Phoenix.
Cal Falcons Peregrine Falcons nesting at University of California, Berkeley Cal Falcons is a website and social media community featuring three live streaming webcams trained on a peregrine falcon nest site atop Sather Tower at the University of California, Berkeley. Cal Falcons is known for its extensive social media presence and following. [1]
The genus Falco was introduced in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae. [13] The type species is the merlin (Falco columbarius). [14] The genus name Falco is Late Latin meaning a "falcon" from falx, falcis, meaning "a sickle", referring to the claws of the bird. [15][16] In Middle English and Old French, the title faucon refers generically to ...
The Fremont Bridge is a steel tied-arch bridge [citation needed] over the Willamette River located in Portland, Oregon, United States. It carries Interstate 405 and US 30 traffic between downtown and North Portland where it intersects with Interstate 5. It has the longest main span of any bridge in Oregon and is the second longest tied-arch bridge in the world (after Caiyuanba Bridge across ...
The falcons and caracaras are around 65 species of diurnal birds of prey that make up the family Falconidae (representing all extant species in the order Falconiformes). The family likely originated in South America during the Paleocene [1] and is divided into three subfamilies: Herpetotherinae, which includes the laughing falcon and forest falcons; Polyborinae, which includes the spot-winged ...
The saker falcon is a large hierofalcon, larger than the lanner falcon and almost as large as gyrfalcon at 45–57 cm (18–22 in) length with a wingspan of 97–126 cm (38–50 in). Males weigh between 730–990 g (26–35 oz) and females 970–1,300 g (34–46 oz). It resembles a larger but browner Gyrfalcon. It is larger and more heavily built than the related Lanner Falcon. [10] Saker ...
The orange-breasted falcon (Falco deiroleucus) is a bird of prey in the family Falconidae, the falcons and caracaras. [2] It is found in southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Panama, and in all South American countries except Chile and Uruguay, though in Argentina only in the far northwest. [3][4][5] Despite its wide range, it is scarce, and considered by IUCN to be Near Threatened. [1]
A prairie falcon in Arizona. The prairie falcon (Falco mexicanus) is a medium-sized falcon found in Western North America. A separate species from the peregrine falcon, with which it shares some visual similarities, the prairie falcon is, essentially, an arid-climate divergence of earlier peregrine falcon lineage. It is thus able to thrive on a more meager, opportunistic diet compared to that ...