Peregrine Falcon’s
are the Fastest
Birds on the
Planet!
By: Lanaysia Devore
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Raising the Babies
Peregrine Falcon Word Search
Agility
My Joke
Speed
Hidden Message
Raising the Babies
When peregrine falcons are raising their young, they start off by making a
nest. Some peregrine falcons have their nests on high places and some make them
on Skyscrapers, bridges, or towers. Peregrine falcons build their nests a little
differently. Their nests is called a scrape. They build them by pushing down on gravel
with their foot.
In North America some peregrine falcons make their scrapes in February or
March. The female peregrine falcon lays her eggs. Sometime there are 3-5 eggs.
The female peregrine keeps her babies cozy while the male get the food for the
female peregrine falcon.
After sometime, around 30 days, the babies are born. When the babies are
born, they are covered with white fluffy down. Their eyes are not open. They are
weak. The female watches after her babies in the beginning. The male catches their
food and brings it back to his family. As the babies get older the female starts to
leave and to go fetch prey.
After 4-6 weeks the nestlings are no longer weak chicks. They leave their
nest and begin to sit on nearby ledges. Soon they do something called fledge, or
start to learn how to fly. They stay a close distance to the nest. The parent peregrine
falcons give the fledglings food. The babies birds start to get better at their flying by
running after each other. They even start to hunt small birds and bugs.
Finally,
the young peregrine falcon will see many bad things in their early life. Owls eat some
hurt falcons, but many young peregrine falcons do live. In just little time the change
from weak young babies to amazing fast and powerful birds.
Agility
Peregrine falcons are sometimes
called agile birds. They can swoop and
move quickly. This is important for falconry.
The falcons have to be able to catch
their prey in the sky. For hundreds of years,
hunters and their family depended on the
prey that the peregrine falcons caught.
They need hunting birds that would be swift
and agile.
My Joke
Speed
Peregrine falcons are speedy. Their long dives
also know as stoops, are awesome to watch. Just
like professional car drivers want fast cars. Falconers
want to have fast falcon. Owning a peregrine
falcon means that the peregrine falcon owner can
watch as many awesome stoops as they want to.
Because of their agility, strength and speed
peregrine falcons have to become preferred by
falconers. Many falconers share there falcons at
programs and shows on TV. Maybe you will get to
see peregrine falcons at work someday.
Hidden message