Our Falcons

Thank you for taking the time to meet our falcons. Please take a moment to consider supporting our falcons’ food supply. Thank you for your generosity!  Our Black Gyrfalcon information and images are being updated. Adoption for the Black Gyr is available here.

Black Gyrfalcon: Falco rusticolus
DOB:2008 Sex: Female Weight: 50oz Wingspan:40 inOur black female gyrfalcon arrived in February 2024.  She had been part of a large breeding project for many years but was hand-raised by people and flown in falconry for the first part of her life. Her gorgeous color is a morph that is native exclusively to the black, volcanic cliffs of Labrador, Canada.
Gyrfalcon Feeding Options

 Peregrine falcon: Falco peregrinus
DOB: 2020   Sex: Male  Weight: 22oz   Wingspan: 36 in

This young peregrine was gifted to us by a falconer in Montana. Bred in captivity, he was briefly flown in falconry before being donated to us in spring 2021.

 

Peregrine Feeding Options
Merlin RC WEB600
Merlin: Falco columbarius
DOB:  2015      Sex: Male  Weight: 4.6 oz     Wingspan:  16 in

Our merlin arrived on August 1, 2017. He was found on February 14, 2017, floating in a icy creek flowing through a snow-covered meadow in Oregon. He nearly drowned, was starving and unable to fly.  This was due to the fact that the outer third of his left wing was missing at the thumb bone. It is unknown how he lost his wing, but we suspect he may have been struck by a car. We believe he is two years old due to the presence of a few retained, brown, juvenile feathers on his wings; this indicates that he is molting for only the second time as of summer 2017.

 
Merlin Feeding Options

Prairie FalconWordPress

 Prairie Falcon: Falco mexicanus
DOB:  2013     Sex: Male  Weight: 16 oz   Wingspan: 30 in.
Our male prairie falcon came from to us from our colleagues at the Montana Raptor Conservation Center in Bozeman, Montana. He was found in the summer of 2013, probably just a few weeks after fledging, with a badly-fractured left humerus. Despite extensive medical care, his wing is frozen at the elbow and wrist joints and has very little extension from his body.
Prairie Feeding Options

WordPressKestrelFemale600RMartinez

 American Kestrel: Falco sparverius
DOB:  Unknown   Sex: Female  Weight: 4.7 oz.  Wingspan:  18 in.
Our female kestrel was found in 2012 in Odessa, Nebraska, along the main street of this small town. She had sustained a fracture of her left humerus, close to her shoulder, and by the time she was brought to Raptor Recovery Nebraska in Elmwood, too much calcification had occurred to restore normal function and motion in her wing. She is partially-flighted, and arrived at REF in January 2013.
Female Kestrel Feeding Donations

 

Male Kestrel 720

 American Kestrel: Falco sparverius
DOB:  Unknown   Sex: Male  Weight: 3.5 oz.  Wingspan:  18 in
Our male kestrel came to us in April 2015 from Liberty Wildlife Rehabilitation Foundation in Scottsdale, AZ. He was found on the ground in Phoenix the previous December, having sustained a compound fracture of his right elbow.  Because some of the bone had already begun to die, surgery and removal of that bone was the only way to save his life, but it did compromise the elbow joint, and affected his flight. He is partially-flighted and lives with our female kestrel and male merlin.
 
Male Kestrel Feeding Donation

 Eurasian/Common Kestrel: Falco tinnunculus
DOB: 2013  Sex:Weight: 8.5 oz  Wingspan:  28 in
Our Eurasian or “Common” kestrel, is anything but common. She is the only raptor we care for which is not native to North America. Though similar in appearance to the American kestrel, she is twice as large. Originally bred in captivity here in the US for falconry, she was donated to us in 2017 by a falconer who was moving to a very cold climate and didn’t believe the environment would be suitable for flying.

Our Eagles   Our Hawks   Our Falcons   Our Owls   Our Kite