What is the falcon’s diet? Falcons typically prey on other birds as well as rodents, insects and other small animal. Birds as large as sandhill cranes, and as small as hummingbirds, have been consumed by falcons. Their typical prey items include shorebirds, ducks, grebes, gulls, pigeons, and songbirds . Peregrine falcons also eat bats, and they occasionally steal prey—including fish and rodents—from other raptors.
Sandhill crane.