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Bird, J.P., Martin, R., Akçakaya, H.R., Gilroy, J., Burfield, I.J., Garnett, S.G., Symes, A., Taylor, J., Şekercioğlu, Ç.H. and Butchart, S.H.M. 2020. Generation lengths of the world’s birds and their implications for extinction risk. Conservation Biology 34(5): 1252-1261. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13486.

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COSEWIC. 2017. COSEWIC assessment and status report on the Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus (pealei subspecies – Falco peregrinus pealei and anatum/tundrius – Falco peregrinus anatum/tundrius) in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada.

del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. and Sargatal, J. (eds). 1994. Handbook of the Birds of the World, vol. 2: New World Vultures to Guineafowl. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain.

Derlink, M., Wernham, C., Bertoncelj, I., Kovács, A., Saurola, P., Duke, G., Movalli, P. and Vrezec, A. 2018. A review of raptor and owl monitoring activity across Europe: its implications for capacity building towards pan-European monitoring. Bird Study 65: S4-S20.

Ferguson-Lees, J. and Christie, D.A. 2001. Raptors of the World. Christopher Helm, London.

Franke, A., Falk, K., Hawkshaw, K. et al. 2019. Status and trends of circumpolar peregrine falcon and gyrfalcon populations. Ambio 49: 762-783.

Garrido, J. R., Numa, C., Barrios, V. et al. In prep. The conservation status and distribution of the breeding birds of prey in Northern Africa. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species - Regional Assessment .

Global Raptor Information Service. 2015. Species account: Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus. Available at: http://www.globalraptors.org/grin/SpeciesResults.asp?specID=8248. (Accessed: 09/07/2015).

IUCN. 2021. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2021-3. Available at: https://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 09 December 2021).

Neslon, R. W. & Myres, T. M. 1976. Declines in populations of Peregrine Falcons and their seabird prey at Langara Island, British Columbia. Condor 78: 281-293.

Partners in Flight. 2020. Population Estimates Database, version 3.1. Available at: http://pif.birdconservancy.org/PopEstimates.

Partners in Flight. 2021. Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2021. Available at: http://pif.birdconservancy.org/ACAD. (Accessed: 29/03/2021).

RSPB. 2014. Birdcrime 2014: offences against wild bird legislation in the UK.

Snow, D.W. and Perrins, C.M. 1998. The Birds of the Western Palearctic, Volume 1: Non-Passerines. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

STRIX. 2012. Developing and testing the methodology for assessing and mapping the sensitivity of migratory birds to wind energy development. BirdLife International, Cambridge.

Thiollay, J.-M. 2007. Raptor population decline in West Africa. Ostrich 78(2): 405-413.

White, C. M., N. J. Clum, T. J. Cade, and W. G. Hunt. 2020. Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus), version 1.0. In: S. M. Billerman (ed.), Birds of the World, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY.

White, C.M., Christie, D.A. and de Juana, E. 2013. Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. and de Juana, E. (eds), Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive, Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.

Zuberogoitia, I., Martínez, J.A., Iraeta, A., Azkona, A., Zabala, J., Jiménez, B., Merino, R. and Gómez, G. 2006. Short-term effects of the prestige oil spill on the peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus). Marine Pollution Bulletin 52: 1176-1181.

Detailed species account from European Red List of Birds (BirdLife International 2015)

Jump to the case study for this species in Wildlife comeback in Europe: The recovery of selected mammal and bird species (Deniet et al. 2003)

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/peregrine-falcon-falco-peregrinus on 26/12/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 26/12/2024.