Although the Peregrine Falcon is found on every continent except Antarctica, there is a huge amount of geographic variation within the species. This oil painting, approximately life size, shows the subspecies that nests only in the region of the north Pacific, on the Commander Islands and possibly nearby coastlines on the Russian side, and through the Alaskan Aleutian Islands to Haida Gwaii (formerly Queen Charlotte Island), British Columbia, with some southward movement of wintering birds, sometimes to be looked for along the California coast.  This painting is in a frame that, including a liner, is about three inches wide, and a dark bronzy brown colour. The painting, which has never been displayed or reproduced, is special to me because in part I used a specimen that had been prepared by the late Maj. Allan Brooks (1869 – 1946), the noted Canadian bird painter whose artwork so inspired me when I was a child. I have shown the bird preying on an Ancient Murrelet (Synthliboramphus antiquus), a member of the auk and puffin family, Alcids, found in large numbers in the same area as this race of Peregrine Falcon.  Sometimes called the “Peale’s Peregrine”, this is about the largest and darkest of the Peregrine Falcons.