Peregrine Falcon
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Falco peregrinus
Scarce residents with 1,800 pairs breeding on British sea cliffs & quarries including 300 pairs in Ireland.
Adults are usually bluish black to slate grey with indistinct darker barring the wingtips are black.
The white to rusty underparts are barred with thin clean bands of dark brown or black.
The tail, coloured like the back but with thin clean bars, is long, narrow, and rounded at the end with a black tip and a white band at the very end.
The top of the head and a "moustache" along the cheeks are black, contrasting sharply with the pale sides of the neck and white throat.
Juveniles are much browner, with streaked, rather than barred, underparts.
They fly with anchor shaped wings.