Birds
KARIM MOHAMED
left: Falcon
center: hawks
right: American Robin
The animals that soar
Imagine you sitting in your
actually includes more than 200
species. Peregrine is one of the
many kinds of falcons.
Peregrine Falcons were
virtually ending in the mid-20th
century by pesticide poisoning.
Peregrine Falcons are most
likely confusing because they
look like other falcons maybe
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Gyrfalcon.These falcons are the
largest birds over most of the
continent. Peregrine falcons
hunt small sized birds. You
should probably look for these
birds on sky-scrapers and other
tall structures. There are other
types of falcons like the
Gyrfalcon.
backyard and there is a bird
sitting behind you. Think about
it for a second, these amazing
creatures looking at you, and
yo u d o n ' t n o t i c e. T h e s e
certanily may be one of the
quietest animals in the wild. All
these different kinds of birds
but all of them communicate
the same way.
Falcons first appeared
thousands of years ago in
grasslands of Africa.Their
typical process of catching is
that they fly above the prey then
fold their wings in and dive on
that bird, then try to catch it in
midair.The falcons prey list
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Gyrfalcons are largest
falcons in the world. It breeds
mostly in Artic and Subartic
re g i o n s o f t h e N o r t h e r n
Hemisphere. Gyrfalcon is
pronounced like(Jerfalcons.)These falcons grow to a
length of two feet(60
centimeters.)
Robins
The early rising bird
American robins are common
site on lawns across North
America, where you often see
them tugging earthworms out
of the ground. American
Robins live about just every
place like in gardens, parks and
ANIMALS