Large winter falcons and their Rock Pigeon (Columba livia) prey at an urban grain terminal in Edmonton, Alberta: an update

• Published in: The Canadian Field-Naturalist
• Main Authors: Lynds, Marissa, Card, Jamie, Hedstrom, Hayley, Delaney, Don, Court, Gordon, Acorn, John
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club 2020
• Subjects: Gyrfalcon; Prairie Falcon; Rock Pigeon; Falco rusticolus; Falco mexicanus; Columba livia; grain terminal; predation; colour preference; thermoregulation; Alberta; Falcon Rock; gyrfalcon
• Online Access: https://www.canadianfieldnaturalist.ca/index.php/cfn/article/view/2515; https://doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v134i3.2515

In winter, Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) and Prairie Falcon (Falco mexicanus) frequent a 96-year-old grain terminal, in Edmonton, Alberta, hunting Rock Pigeon (Columba livia). This phenomenon was reviewed shortly after it was first noticed by others in 1998 and, since then, we have observed hunting s...