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Aplomado Falcon
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The handsome Aplomado Falcon is as attractive as its smaller relative the American Kestrel, but is much harder to find, at least in the U.S. Its name aplomado” is Spanish for “gray” or “lead-colored,” and refers to the blue-gray plumage of this bird's back. Below, a black belly band separates the Aplomado Falcon’s light-colored, sometimes streaky upper breast from its rufous belly. Bold face markings include the dark mustache common to most species in the falcon family, set off by a contrasting dark eye stripe and white eyebrow. • Adult Aplomados are slender, with long legs, wings, and tail, proportioned somewhat like an accipiter such as the Cooper's Hawk. In size, this species is just a bit smaller than the Peregrine Falcon. The Aplomado’s northern subspecies once ranged throughout Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, but was largely extirpated from those states and Northern Mexico by the 1950s. • Which factors led to this handsome falcon's disappearance in North America? • Click here to find out more: https://abcbirds.org/bird/aplomado-fa... • Footage by Gualberto Becerra/Shutterstock
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