Aplomado Falcon
by Dawn Currie
Title
Aplomado Falcon
Artist
Dawn Currie
Medium
Photograph - Digital
Description
Photographic artwork by Dawn Currie: Stunning portrait of an Aplomado Falcon. Captive bird photographed in Titusville Florida
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The Aplomado Falcon (Falco femoralis) was placed on the Endangered Species List in 1986 and is the last falcon in the United States currently on this list. The last known wild breeding pair of Aplomado Falcons in the United States was last seen in New Mexico in 1952.
The term aplomado is Spanish and means 'lead colored' referring to the dark blue-gray of the back of this handsome falcon. The Aplomado is a slim falcon with a long and strongly banded tail. It is a falcon of savanna, and grassland adjacent to shrubbery, in the north of the range including grassland adjacent to desert scrub. This raptor can be found from the Southwest of the United States south to Tierra del Fuego. Aplomado Falcons will hunt together as pairs or in family groups, working together to pursue or flush out their prey.
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September 15th, 2015
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Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your fantastic photographic art has been chosen as a Camera Art Group feature! You are invited to archive your work in the Features Archive discussion as well as any other discussion in which it would fit.
William Tasker
Thank you for submitting this fine nature shot to Wild Birds Of The World - A Nature Photography group, where the image is now featured on the home page.
Mary Ann Weger
Fantastic portrait! The golden rim around this birds eyes really make his/her eyes stand out! I could look directly at him/her for hours!
Jilian Cramb - AMothersFineArt
1/11/16 Congratulations your work has been featured in the FAA Group Beauty in Art!