While our trapping for merlins this Peales was caught and released. This video shows Matt (my friend Fred's apprentice) releasing the bird. She weighed close to 1200 grams and fit a tiercel RT size hood. Her feet and tarsi were close in thickness to my 53 oz flying weight female Gyr. This was a large Peregrine, and probably the only Peales ever caught in UT, that we know of.
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