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.

### Paper Prairie Falcon (Falco mexicanus) Abundance in a National Conservation Area in Idaho Has Increased since the 1970s–1990s. 59 (1): 1-13. DOI: 10.3356 Notes to Editor: 1.

Murmuring softly, he rouses his new raptor from her perch. "Come on, wake up, there you go," Markley says, coaxing a female prairie falcon named Storm onto his fist.

Toll road is ramping upPromoters of the Front Range Toll Road have renamed their venture the Prairie Falcon Parkway Express and filed papers Monday with state officials to move the project forward ...