Anna Bell, 14, rebounded from a tough finish to win the Prairie Invitational by six strokes, shooting 141 over two rounds at ...

Monte Markley read My Side of the Mountain as a kid and was captivated by the story of a boy and his falcon. He's now a master falconer, training his latest bird on the grasslands of Kansas.

Despite widespread declines in North American grassland bird populations over the last fifty years, a falcon species on a conservation area in Idaho appears to be holding strong. This is according ...

How to spot one: Prairie falcons are pointy-winged, long-tailed raptors about the size of a crow. Their shape is designed for speed, though not as fast as the peregrine falcon.

Monte Markley with his prairie falcon Storm in a field near August, Kansas. He says he fell in love with raptors as a kid because of a book and a hawk in a box.

The prairie falcon is clay or sand colored with a buffy heavily spotted breast. Over the eye is a white brow and a long, black mustache extends to the white throat.

A prairie falcon speeds home to a cliff near the Snake River. The bird doesn’t see a fine net in its path. As the bird collides with the net, it collapses and wraps around the raptor.

There are an estimated 1,650 breeding pairs of peregrine falcons in North America. Update The first egg at the Pleasant Prairie Power Plant hatched early Tuesday afternoon.

He’s a stealthy predator, fond of mice, birds, and prairie dogs. The Prairie Falcon, a speed-powered flyer, nearly as fast as the Peregrine falcon. And then there’s prairie antelope!

Prairie falcon population half of what it should be 8 years ago 1:04 30-year veteran conservationist tracks falcons with banding ...