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Peregrine Falcons at the National Wildlife Refuges

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BBC Nature has a really cool video of the Peregrine hunting a pigeon in a stoop. Although Peregrines are famous for hunting birds from above by stooping down on them, they use several other means of attaining prey and are most active at dawn and dusk. .” Don’t miss it! Peregrine Falcon from Sacramento NWR auto loop.

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Crazy Flickers

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I didn’t know much about Flickers until I started volunteering at a wildlife rehabilitation center a couple of years ago. I dare you not to duck when that happens! The result is the same though — loose Flicker and plenty of fun hunting him down. For some reason, Flickers seem amazingly accident prone.