WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Falco peregrinus | Peregrine Falcon 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
The migratory range of the three North American subspecies of peregrine
falcon extends from Greenland south through Canada and Alaska, into the
continental United States, through Mexico, and into South America.
Their breeding range extends from northern Alaska, northern MacKenzie,
Banks, Victoria, southern Melville, Somerset, the northern Baffin
Islands, and Labrador to Baja California, the Sonoran Coast, southern
Arizona, New Mexico, west and central Texas, and Colorado.  Occasionally
it breeds in the Sierra Madre of northern Mexico.  Formerly the
peregrine falcon bred in Kansas, Arkansas, northeastern Louisiana,
Tennessee, northern Alabama, and northwestern Georgia.  It is rare as a
breeder throughout much of continental North America, especially in the
East.  The peregrine falcon has been reestablished through introduction
programs in the eastern United States [2,4].

Falco p. ssp. pealei has a very limited range in coastal Alaska and
coastal British Columbia.  Falco p. ssp. tundrius is found in the
maritime provinces of Canada and in Greenland.  Falco p. spp. anatum is
found in Canada and the United States, including Alaska [2,11,17].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
FRES10 White-red-jack pine
FRES12 Longleaf-slash pine
FRES13 Loblolly-shortleaf pine
FRES15 Oak-hickory
FRES16 Oak-gum-cypress
FRES20 Douglas-fir
FRES21 Ponderosa pine
FRES22 Western white pine
FRES24 Hemlock-Sitka spruce
FRES25 Larch
FRES26 Lodgepole pine
FRES27 Redwood
FRES28 Western hardwoods
FRES29 Sagebrush
FRES30 Desert shrub
FRES32 Texas savanna
FRES33 Southwestern shrubsteppe
FRES34 Chaparral-mountain shrub
FRES35 Pinyon-juniper
FRES36 Mountain grasslands
FRES37 Mountain meadows
FRES39 Prairie
FRES40 Desert grasslands
FRES41 Wet grasslands
FRES42 Annual grasslands


STATES : 


    
AL
    
AK
	
AZ
    
CA
    
CO
    
CT
    
DE
    
FL
    
GA
    
HI


	
ID
    
IL
    
LA
    
ME
    
MD
    
MA
    
MI
    
MN
    
MS
    
MT


    
NV
    
NJ
    
NM
    
NY
    
NC
    
OH
    
OR
    
PA
    
RI
    
SC


    
TX
    
UT
    
VA
    
WA
    
WY
    
DC
 





    
AB
    
BC
    
MB
    
NB
    
NF
    
NT
    
NS
    
ON
    
PE
    
PQ


    
SK
    
YK
    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    







    
MEXICO
    




BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    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 : 
   K001  Spruce - cedar - hemlock forest
   K006  Redwood forest
   K008  Lodgepole pine - subalpine forest
   K009  Pine - cypress forest
   K010  Ponderosa shrub forest
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K016  Eastern ponderosa forest
   K018  Pine - Douglas-fir forest
   K019  Arizona pine forest
   K022  Great Basin pine forest
   K024  Juniper steppe woodland
   K027  Mesquite bosque
   K029  California mixed evergreen forest
   K030  California oakwoods
   K035  Coastal sagebrush
   K036  Mosaic of K030 and K035
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K047  Fescue - oatgrass
   K048  California steppe
   K049  Tule marshes
   K050  Fescue - wheatgrass
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K057  Galleta - threeawn 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
   K066  Wheatgrass - needlegrass
   K072  Sea oats prairie
   K073  Northern cordgrass prairie
   K077  Bluestem - sacahuista prairie
   K078  Southern cordgrass prairie
   K079  Palmetto prairie
   K080  Marl - everglades
   K084  Cross Timbers
   K088  Fayette prairie
   K090  Live oak - sea oats
   K091  Cypress savanna
   K092  Everglades
   K094  Conifer bog
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K105  Mangrove
   K112  Southern mixed forest
   K113  Southern floodplain forest
   K114  Pocosin
   K115  Sand pine scrub
   K116  Subtropical pine forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
    15  Red pine
    16  Aspen
    18  Paper birch
    19  Gray birch - red maple
    21  Eastern white pine
    30  Red spruce - yellow birch
    32  Red spruce
    35  Paper birch - red spruce - balsam fir
    38  Tamarack
    61  River birch - sycamore
    63  Cottonwood
    68  Mesquite
    69  Sand pine
    70  Longleaf pine
    71  Longleaf pine - scrub oak
    73  Southern redcedar
    74  Cabbage palmetto
    75  Shortleaf pine
    78  Virginia pine - oak
    79  Virginia pine
    80  Loblolly pine - shortleaf pine
    81  Loblolly pine
    82  Loblolly pine - hardwood
    83  Longleaf pine - slash pine
    84  Slash pine
    85  Slash pine - hardwood
    87  Sweet gum - yellow poplar
    88  Willow oak - water oak - diamondleaf oak
    89  Live oak
    91  Swamp chestnut oak - cherrybark oak
    92  Sweetgum - willow oak
    94  Sycamore - sweetgum - American elm
    96  Overcup oak - water hickory
    97  Atlantic white-cedar
    98  Pond pine
   100  Pondcypress
   101  Baldcypress
   102  Baldcypress - tupelo
   103  Water tupelo - swamp tupelo
   104  Sweetbay - swamp tupelo - redbay
   105  Tropical hardwoods
   106  Mangrove
   107  White spruce
   111  South Florida slash pine
   202  White spruce - paper birch
   203  Balsam poplar
   204  Black spruce
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   217  Aspen
   218  Lodgepole pine
   220  Rocky Mountain juniper
   221  Red alder
   222  Black cottonwood - willow
   223  Sitka spruce
   224  Western hemlock
   225  Western hemlock - Sitka spruce
   226  Coastal true fir - hemlock
   227  Western redcedar - western hemlock
   228  Western redcedar
   229  Pacific Douglas-fir
   230  Douglas-fir - western hemlock
   232  Redwood
   233  Oregon white oak
   234  Douglas-fir - tanoak - Pacific madrone
   235  Cottonwood - willow
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   238  Western juniper
   241  Western live oak
   242  Mesquite
   244  Pacific ponderosa pine - Douglas-fir
   245  Pacific ponderosa pine
   246  California black oak
   247  Jeffrey pine
   248  Knobcone pine
   251  White spruce - aspen
   252  Paper birch
   253  Black spruce - white spruce
   254  Black spruce - paper birch
   255  California coast live oak


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Peregrine falcons inhabit tundra, moorland, steppe, marshland, mountain
meadows, open forests, and seacoasts.  They frequent both the Atlantic
and Pacific coasts from Greenland through South America.  Inland,
peregrines inhabit open plant communities, such as grasslands and
meadows, usually near rivers or lakes.  They are found in the coniferous
forests of the West and the mixed deciduous and coniferous forests of
the East and Southeast.  In the Southwest peregrine falcons inhabit
savannas and shrubsteppes.  Throughout their range they inhabit the less
dense forests, usually near large openings, and can be found along the
borders of dense forests near water.  Peregrine falcons are also found
in some urban centers of the United States and Canada.  Cities where
peregrine falcons have been introduced include Chicago, Milwaukee,
Boston, New York, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Norfolk, Detroit, Baltimore,
and Philadelphia.  [2,4,5,7,11].


REFERENCES : 
NO-ENTRY

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