Photo Gallery (U.S. National Park Service)

Each spring, staff and volunteers monitor nesting prairie and peregrine falcons and other raptor species in Pinnacles National Park.

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Adult, Red-Shouldered Hawk, with pale reddish-orange colored breast feathers with white striping and a darker brown with white striping wing sits on an oak tree.

Red-Shouldered Hawk Adult on a...

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An adult male Prairie Falcon is perched on a cliff face letting out a call, around it is orange, green, and black lichen.

Adult Male Prairie Falcon Perc...

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A large adult Peregrine Falcon flies, wings outstretched, against a clear blue sky. It has black around the top and sides of its head and a brown body with white striping.

Adult Peregrine Falcon Circlin...

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An Adult Long-Eared Owl squinting, its yellow eyes narrowed. It is dark brown with light brown accents around its eyes and along the side of its face. One of its ears is droopy the other standing straight.

Long-Eared Owl Adult Watching ...

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An adult, Red-Shouldered Hawk is in a tree building a nest out of sticks. Its chest a pale reddish-brown and wings darker brown with white striping.

Red-Shouldered Hawk Arranging ...

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Close-up of an adult Long-Eared Owl with its two nestlings in front of it. One nestling watches with light yellow eyes and grey/white feathers, the other is calling out and the adult watches behind them.

Long-Eared Owl Adult with Nest...

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A Golden Eagle against a clear blue sky flying with its wings outstretched. A rich dark brown coloring is along the center of its body and inner part of the wings and becomes lighter at the tip of its wings.

Golden Eagle Adult in Flight

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A Portrait of a young Long-Eared Owl Fledgling, it is on a branch of a tree with a canopy above and behind. Its bright yellow eyes looking out, its greyish-brown feathers cover its body with two tufts along its head.

Long-Eared Owl Fledgling

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A Long-Eared Owl Fledgling perched in a tree, its chest showing a developing pattern and yellow eyes wide open.

Long-Eared Owl Fledgling

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Close-up of an adult female Prairie Falcon at her cliff cavity nest. Her chest is mostly white, with brown spotting and a brown back. She is surrounded by orange and orange-green lichen and calling out.

Adult Female Prairie Falcon Pe...

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A male Prairie Falcon, wings outstretched, flying above Pinnacles. Its brown patterned back visible.

Male Prairie Falcon in Flight

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Three young fledgling Prairie Falcons in their cliff cavity nest. Two are in full view with white down feathers and some developing light brown and brown feathers across their chest and wings. All three have their beaks open calling out and the one furthest left is hidden behind another.

Prairie Falcon Nestlings in Cl...

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Portrait of another Long-Eared owl, yellow eyes open wide as it sits on a Gray Pine. There are some pine needles in front of it. Its white, brown, and light brown feathers across its chest visible and wings folded in. Its ear tufts are pressed down.

Adult Long-Eared Owl Perched o...

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An adult female Prairie Falon flies through Pinnacles, its wings open and back visible with brown patterned feathers with white. Her mouth is open calling.

Prairie Falcon Female in Fligh...

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