Many falcons species around the world are decreasing due to overgrazing, poaching, and loss of habitat. The Aplomado falcon is one of those species. The Aplomado falcon species has been decreasing, but if the U.S. Government could help fund the captive-breeding program then it can prove to be a viable solution The Falco femoralis, better known as the Aplomado falcon, is a predator found in the sky in the Trans-Pecos region and in center and southern part of South America. They mostly live in open grassland areas and savannah habitats with scattered trees or shrubs (“Northern Aplomado” [tpwd]). Their diet includes their favorite prey; birds, and large insects so that makes them herbivores since they rely on other animals for food (“Aplomado …show more content…
Although its numbers aren’t high, its global distribution is wide-ranged. The falcon is known as one the ”top tier” predators or otherwise known as the apex. If the apex is just thrown out of the food web then it could throw the whole web off balance, allowing the prey to overpopulate with nothing to control them. The prey, in this case, would include rodents, insects and other birds (“Aplomado Falcon” [arkive.org]). Although there may be other animals that could control the prey, it is not certain. Also since Aplomado falcons live in mostly desert habitats, the biodiversity in its habitat is pretty low. So the Aplomado falcon also contributes to that major factor as well. Without the Aplomado falcon the biodiversity rate decreases which is bad for the ecosystem. It’s also bad for humans because when the biodiversity is low where people live, then the people living there will not thrive better since there are fewer animal resources to use (“Aplomado …show more content…
Pat is a fund administrator for the Peregrine Fund which means she is the one who mostly manages the website and meetings, and collects the funds that the Peregrine Fund gets. Pat Burnham is one the leaders of the organization and helps with some of the breeding programs of the Aplomado falcon in the Trans-Pecos region. According to Peregrine Fund, she also controls what info comes in and out on the website and visits some sites, hands-on. She has been doing a lot to help the Aplomado falcon such as collecting the funds for them and implementing new ideas such as maybe making artificial nests (“Peregrine Fund”). Habitat heroes like her could bring the Aplomado falcon out of endangerment, once and for