Go to Species Guide. Aplomado is the Spanish word for lead-colored. An intensive reintroduction program has put them back on the map, yet sightings and nesting activity are uncommon enough to remain special. It is approximately 12–15 inches … View All × My Albums × EXIF data. Those sightings involved mostly sin- gle birds seen briefly at various locations. More from Marc FASOL. This long-winged, long-tailed falcon is widespread through Central and South America. 50 km west of the Texas border (ca. To filter Rejected records, type Rejected into the Search box, all columns can be filtered. The Aplomado Falcon (Falco femoralis) is a medium-sized falcon of the Americas.The species' largest contiguous range is in South America, but not in the deep interior Amazon Basin. View all sightings.

The Northern Aplomado Falcon (F. f. septentrionalis) was once fairly common along the southern Gulf Coast of Texas and throughout large portions of the southwest and Mexico. During the 1987-1992 field work seasons of the TBBA project, atlasers found possible breeding evidence for the Aplomado Falcon in latilong-quad 27098-B2.

September 10, 2010. in Aplomado Falcon reports and verified records heightened interest in the possibili- ty that the species might be recolonizing the southwestern United States (Williams 1997).
Sightings of the falcon have increased in New Mexico in recent years. More images of Aplomado Falcon. Except for regular sightings on the King Ranch (Kleberg County) as late as the 1950s, reports of the Aplo-mado Falcon were extremely rare in the U.S. after the 1940s. Facts About Aplomado Falcons The northern aplomado falcon is a rare, nonmigratory, medium-sized falcon. Reliable sightings of Aplomados, usually single birds, have been Northern Aplomado Falcon 1 Northern Aplomado Falcon

And with luck — the Aplomado Falcon, Audubon’s Oriole, Tropical Parula and the rare Black Rail.

Aplomado Falcon. It was long known as Falco fusco-coerulescens or Falco fuscocaerulescens, but these names are now believed to refer to the Bat Falcon (F. rufigularis).

The species' largest contiguous range is in South America, but not in the deep interior Amazon Basin. Status Endangered, Listed 2/26/1986 Description The beautiful aplomado falcon has a steel grey back, red breast, black "sash" on its belly, and striking black markings on the top of its head, around its eyes, and extending down its face.
Long, dark tail has thin white bands. bly favor the falcon’s mode of spot-ting, chasing, and capturing avian prey. In the past five quarterly lease sales, BLM has leased 65,000 acres of falcon habitat, thus exposing it to drilling. This is a bluish-grey color similar to steel. In Mexico, however, it remains in much of its historic range.

Certainly, there were single-digit sightings from Highway 90 during the release (C2 being the individual when we were able to read the band), but for the most part it's a challenge to find the proverbial needle in a haystack. According to the groups who filed today’s lawsuit, protection of habitat is urgently needed for full falcon recovery.