SUMMER DIET OF THE PEREGRINE FALCON IN FAUNISTICALLY RICH AND POOR ZONES OF ARIZONA ANALYZED WITH CAPTURE-RECAPTURE MODELING

• Main Authors: David H Ellis, Catherine H Ellis, Beth Ann Sabo, Amadeo M Rea, James Dawson, James K Fackler, Charles T Larue, Teryl G Grubb, John Schmitt, Dwight G Smith, Marc Ké Ry
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Eyrie; Falco peregrinus; peregrine falcon
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1080.8886; http://www.globalraptors.org/grin/researchers/uploads/476/summer_diet_2004.pdf

Abstract. We collected prey remains from 25 Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) territories across Arizona from 1977 to 1988 yielding 58 eyrie-years of data. Along with 793 individual birds (107 species and six additional genera), we found seven mammals and nine insects. In addition, two nestling pe...