THE DIET OF BREEDING BROWN FALCONS {FALCO BERIGORA) IN THE CANBERRA REGION, AUSTRALIA, WITH COMPARISONS TO OTHER REGIONS.

The article discusses a study on the diet of breeding Brown Falcons in and around the Canberra region during the breading seasons 2002-03 to 2005-06 and 2009-10. Twenty separate territories of Brown Falcons within 40 km. of the center of Canberra, Australia were sample with the Brown Falcon nests located in open, dry forest with adjacent grassy valleys typical of the preferred woodland habitat of said species. It indicates that for the sites samples, introduced rabbits were one of the more important food items for the Brown Falcon population and suggests a comparison of these dietary data to those of another woodland generalist raptor breeding in the same region, the Brown Goshawk.