Western Bird Guide: Birds of the Rockies and West to the Pacific

by Charles K. Reed

APLOMADO FALCON.

359. Falco fusco-cœrulescens. 14 inches.

Found in some of the more southerly states, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and Central America. In habits it is very much the same as the following, getting its supply of food, consisting of small birds and insects, on the plains covered with the cactus and yucca, in which they build their nest of twigs, lining it with roots and grass, in which they lay three or four eggs, creamy white, strongly marked with shades of brown (1.75 × 1.30).