WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Falco mexicanus | Prairie Falcon 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Prairie falcons breed from central British Columbia, southern Alberta,
Saskatchewan, and North Dakota south to Baja California.  They winter
from the northern parts of their breeding range south to central Mexico
and east to the Mississippi River [1,10,13,16].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
FRES26 Lodgepole pine
FRES28 Western hardwoods
FRES29 Sagebrush
FRES30 Desert shrub
FRES31 Shinnery
FRES32 Texas savanna
FRES33 Southwestern shrubsteppe
FRES34 Chaparral-mountain shrub
FRES35 Pinyon-juniper
FRES36 Mountain grasslands
FRES37 Mountain meadows
FRES38 Plains grasslands
FRES39 Prairie
FRES40 Desert grasslands
FRES41 Wet grasslands
FRES42 Annual grasslands
FRES44 Alpine


STATES : 


 	
AZ
    
CA
    
CO
    
ID
    
KS
    
MT
    
NE
    
NM
    
NE
    
NV


   	
ND
    
OK
    
OR
    
SD
    
TX
    
UT
    
WA
    
WY






    
AB
    
BC
    
SK
    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    







    
MEXICO
    




BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    3  Southern Pacific Border
    4  Sierra Mountains
    5  Columbia Plateau
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    7  Lower Basin and Range
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K008  Lodgepole pine - subalpine forest
   K022  Great Basin pine forest
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K024  Juniper steppe woodland
   K026  Oregon oakwoods
   K027  Mesquite bosque
   K030  California oakwoods
   K031  Oak - juniper woodlands
   K032  Transition between K031 and K037
   K034  Montane chaparral
   K035  Coastal sagebrush
   K037  Mountain-mahogany - oak scrub
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K039  Blackbrush
   K040  Saltbush - greasewood
   K041  Creosotebush
   K042  Creosotebush - bursage
   K043  Paloverde - cactus shrub
   K044  Creosotebush - tarbush
   K045  Ceniza shrub
   K047  Fescue - oatgrass
   K048  California steppe
   K050  Fescue - wheatgrass
   K051  Wheatgrass - bluegrass
   K052  Alpine meadows and barren
   K053  Grama - galleta steppe
   K054  Grama - tobosa prairie
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K057  Galleta - three-awn shrubsteppe
   K058  Grama - tobosa shrubsteppe
   K059  Trans-Pecos shrub savanna
   K060  Mesquite savanna
   K061  Mesquite - acacia savanna
   K062  Mesquite - live oak savanna
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K064  Grama - needlegrass - wheatgrass
   K065  Grama - buffalograss
   K066  Wheatgrass - needlegrass
   K067  Wheatgrass - bluestem - needlegrass
   K068  Wheatgrass - grama - buffalograss
   K069  Bluestem - grama prairie
   K070  Sandsage - bluestem prairie
   K071  Shinnery
   K073  Northern cordgrass prairie
   K074  Bluestem prairie
   K075  Nebraska Sandhills prairie
   K076  Blackland prairie
   K077  Bluestem - sacahuista prairie
   K083  Cedar glades
   K085  Mesquite - buffalograss
   K086  Juniper - oak savanna
   K087  Mesquite - oak savanna
   K088  Fayette prairie


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    66  Ashe juniper - redberry (Pinchot) juniper
    67  Mohrs (shin) oak
    68  Mesquite
   217  Aspen
   218  Lodgepole pine
   220  Rocky Mountain juniper
   222  Black cottonwood - willow
   233  Oregon white oak
   235  Cottonwood - willow
   238  Western juniper
   239  Pinyon - juniper
   240  Arizona cypress
   241  Western live oak
   242  Mesquite
   243  Sierra Nevada mixed conifer
   246  California black oak
   249  Canyon live oak
   250  Blue oak - Digger pine
   255  California coast live oak


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Prairie falcons commonly occur in arid and semiarid shrubland and
grassland community types.  They are also occasionally found in open
parklands within coniferous forests [21].  In the Sierra Nevada prairie
falcons are primarily associated with perennial grasslands, lodgepole
pine (Pinus contorta) of varying canopy closures, and alpine meadows
[34].  In British Columbia prairie falcons inhabit open treeless areas
including arid grasslands and sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) steppe, alpine
meadows and ridges, and less frequently, marshes and farmlands [12].  In
northeastern Wyoming prairie falcons prefer grassland habitats over
those with sagebrush when given the choice [33].  Prairie falcon habitat
in northern Mexico is a combination of forest, woodland, and chaparral
in the mountainous terrain surrounding the nest site, and grassland and
desert scrub on the open slopes and valleys used for foraging [23].


REFERENCES : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Wildlife Species: Falco mexicanus | Prairie Falcon