Gyrfalcon
For the last 20 years I have been a full-time wildlife photographer. My passion is all wildlife but the raptors, especially the kestrel and the burrowing owl have a huge place in my heart. I have led many workshops and I used to be a high school science teacher. I love what I do and I will continue until I am pushing up some daisies in a beautiful field.
Gyrfalcon
Stocky beast of a falcon; ranges in color from strikingly white to silvery-gray to dark sooty-brown. Relatively long tail and broad wings with powerful flight. Generally darker above and paler below, with markings on the belly ranging from small and crisp to big and chunky. Breeds on cliffs on Arctic tundra; winters in large open areas. Scarce even on breeding grounds. Bulkier and shorter-winged than Peregrine Falcon with a more diffuse face pattern and silvery undersides on flight feathers. Feeds on birds and mammals.
We drove from Colorado Springs to Pueblo for Eagle Day. Cadets from the Air Force Academy did too, to display their falcons. This gyrfalcon was shown to a crowd gathered in front of the Lake Pueblo State Park headquarters building. Later, this bird and others gave flying demonstrations in a nearby field.
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The Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) is a falcon species that lives on the Arctic coasts and tundra, the islands of northern North America, and the Eurosiberian region. And for centuries, the falcon has been valued as a hunting bird. They are very large, and females are bulkier and heavier. The Gyrfalcon has a wingspan in the range of 43.3”-63” (110-160 cm) and total weight of 1.8-4.6 lb (.8-2.1 kg). The body of the Gyrfalcon has an overall length between 18.9”-25.6” (48-65 cm), body width of 6.5”-9.25” (16.5-23.5 cm), and standing height of roughly 14.6”-19.3” (37-49 cm). The typical lifespan of the Gyrfalcon is between 12-25 years.
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For the last 20 years I have been a full-time wildlife photographer. My passion is all wildlife but the raptors, especially the kestrel and the burrowing owl have a huge place in my heart. I have led many workshops and I used to be a high school science teacher. I love what I do and I will continue until I am pushing up some daisies in a beautiful field.
Hawker Gyrfalcon FG.1
My friend Kenneth, a Gyrfalcon researcher in Norway, is perhaps the most enthusiastically obsessed Gyrfalcon lover I know. I really appreciate his passion for the bird. Next week he is traveling to Salt Lake City for the Raptor Research Foundation's annual conference. He asked me to paint a Gyrfalcon portrait for him, so I decided…
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