: a swift nearly cosmopolitan falcon (Falco peregrinus) often used in falconry
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Widowed twice, Etheldreda is left to care for her own two children, her haughty stepdaughter, and a peregrine falcon.—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 13 May 2025 Annie, a peregrine falcon who has lived on the tower since 2016, and her new partner Archie have not been seen on the campus in nearly two months, according to Cal Falcons, the group of scientists and volunteers who track the birds.—Bay City News, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2025 Currently, the beaches of Torrey Pines are crowded with photographers hoping for that perfect picture of peregrine falcon chicks being raised in crude scrape nests placed on precarious perches, high on the sandstone cliffs.—Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2025 The largest urban concentration of peregrine falcons in North America lives in New York City.—Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 5 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for peregrine falcon
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Etymology
Middle English faukon peregryn, from Medieval Latin falco peregrinus, literally, pilgrim falcon; from the young being captured wandering from their nests, which were too inaccessible to reach easily
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