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What continent was the first peregrine falcon found?

I am doing a project due tomorrow and I need to know where the peregrine falcon originates.

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1. i am not sure they are from only one location they are found all other the world, but where described in europe in the 1700s. Try these websites they may help.
2. Peregrine falcon is genus name for several different falcons. In the usa, it is commonly called the duck hawk, or American peregrine falcon. Nobles loved these falcons because they were fierce competiors, but they were easily tamed. it is because of this falcon, that bird hunting is called falconry. In England you may not have been allowed to have weapons for hunting, but you could keep a falcon. many a stew had a rabbit that this falcon caught. below is come of the info on wikipedia. used to help train red tail hawks in this sport. This falcon has been around for ages. In the 18th century they started naming animals into family. That is when latin genus names came into great use. This species was first described by Marmaduke Tunstall in his 1771 Ornithologia Britannica under its current binomial name.[16] The scientific name Falco peregrinus, means "wandering falcon" in Latin.[17] Indeed, the species' common name refers to its wide-ranging flights in most European languages.[18] The Latin term for falcon, falco, is related to falx, the Latin word meaning sickle, in reference to the silhouette of the falcon's long, pointed wings in flight.[14] The Peregrine Falcon belongs to a genus whose lineage includes the hierofalcons[19] and the Prairie Falcon (F. mexicanus). This lineage probably diverged from other falcons towards the end of the Late Miocene or in the Early Pliocene, about 8–5 million years ago (mya). As the Peregrine-hierofalcon group includes both Old World and North American species, it is likely that the lineage originated in western Eurasia or Africa. Its relationship to other falcons is not clear; the issue is complicated by widespread hybridization confounding mtDNA sequence analyses; for example a genetic lineage of the Saker Falcon (F. cherrug) is known[20] which originated from a male Saker producing fertile young with a female Peregrine ancestor some 100,000 years ago.[ref] Today, Peregrines are regularly hybridized in captivity with other species such as the Lanner Falcon (F. biarmicus) to produce the "perilanner", a somewhat popular bird in falconry as it combines the Peregrine's hunting skill with the Lanner's hardiness, or the Gyrfalcon to produce large, strikingly-colored birds for the use of falconers. As can be seen, the Peregrine is still genetically close to the hierofalcons, though their lineages diverged in the Late Pliocene (maybe some 2.5–2 mya in the Gelasian).[21]
3. The BIG U.S. of A *God Bless America, NO one else