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Arctic Peregrine Falcon Breeding Distribution

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Habitat

Nesting occurs on gentle open slopes to low embankments, low or high rock outcrops, or tall sheer cliffs. Nests near rivers and lakes (Wheeler 2003, Ritchie et al. 2004). Uses tussock-heath tundra with lakes and sedge grass marshes and riparian areas for foraging (White and Nelson 1991).

References

Ritchie, R. J., A. M. Wildman, and C. M. White. 2004. Peregrine Falcons nesting on lake bluffs on the Arctic Coastal Plain of northern Alaska. Raptor Research 38:158-160.

Wheeler, B. K. 2003. Raptors of western North America. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.

White, C. M. and R. W. Nelson. 1991. Hunting range and strategies in a tundra breeding Peregrine
Falcon and Gyrfalcon observed from a helicopter. Journal of Raptor Research 25:49-62.

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