Near Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge - Texas. The Aplomado Falcon has been extirpated from the United States since the 1950s. Re-introduction efforts in southern Texas and New Mexico began in the 1990s. This has been a target bird my last four trips to Texas. I finally had a sighting, and as a bonus it was a pair. I believe the main photo is an adult male. It caught some type of bird. Note that it does not have any bands indicating that it must have been born wild. These photos are in extreme low light with the sun just about to disappear below the horizon. My stocklist