Date: 11/21/25 9:28 am From: John Williams (via aznmbirds Mailing List) <aznmbirds...> Subject: [AZNMbirds] One mystery solved
Over that past six weeks at Arthur Pack Reg Park in Tucson, I three times heard a keening call that I did not recognize. I was stuck on Red-shouldered Hawk calls, which I was familiar with from decades in the east.
Yesterday I heard it again, walked toward the area of origin, then a Prairie Falcon flew up, attacking a flock of Mourning Doves.
At home, I reviewed sound files for Prairie Falcon at Macaulay Library, and found a very good match with one file. Ca-ree-er repeated in a series of 5-7 times was what I’d been hearing.
I had never heard this call from a falcon; I am used to the group doing variations of a rapid kek-kek-kek….
The presence of this bird supports a theory of mine about how the fall seeding of the golf course attracts more than just seed eaters. Many of my Prairie and Peregrine sightings are concurrent with the rise in doves.
Thanks to the several respondents who sent suggestions.
