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title: "Falcão-das-pradarias"
description: "Falco mexicanus — Aves. The prairie falcon (Falco mexicanus) is a medium-sized falcon found in Western North America."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/prairie-falcon
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Falcão-das-pradarias

> Falco mexicanus — Aves. The prairie falcon (Falco mexicanus) is a medium-sized falcon found in Western North America.

- Scientific name: *Falco mexicanus*
- Category: `birds` (Aves)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Campos e prados), `desert` (Deserto)
- iNaturalist observations: 4954
- Wikidata: [Q844234](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q844234)
- iNaturalist taxon: [4644](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4644)

## Names

- en: Prairie Falcon
- de: Präriefalke
- es: Halcón mexicano
- fr: Faucon des prairies
- nl: Prairievalk
- pt: Falcão-das-pradarias
- pl: Sokół preriowy

## Countries with the most observations

US (4022), CA (402), MX (124)

## Summary

The prairie falcon (Falco mexicanus) is a medium-sized falcon found in Western North America. A separate species from the peregrine falcon, with which it shares some visual similarities, the prairie falcon is, essentially, an arid-climate divergence of earlier peregrine falcon lineage. It is thus able to thrive on a more meager, opportunistic diet compared to that of the peregrine, and is generally lighter in weight than a peregrine of similar wingspan.  Having evolved in harsher and desert environments, often with low prey density, the prairie falcon has developed into an aggressive and opportunistic hunter of a…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie_falcon

## Photo

![Falcão-das-pradarias](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/prairie-falcon/medium.jpg)

Photo: Megan Ralph · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/65788639

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/prairie-falcon?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).