Peregrine Falcon (4/8)

FALCONIFORMES: Falconidae

Falco peregrinus  

A Peregrine Falcon perches high in a tree where it can survey the flats below.

We had just seen the Peregrine's smaller look-a-like relative, the Australian Hobby, less than an hour earlier only a few kilometres away.

This Peregrine has been captured at some time in the past and bears a green band on its right leg and a black band on its left.