Mature plumage, DC, far as I could tell.
Beyonce' is ok, I guess, but she is not all that talon-ted! Not like this girl:
Prairie falcons and peregrines have HUGE feet for their body size. Since those are the tools used to snag birds out of the air, casting a wider net means higher success rates. Falcons do not always kill with the strike, and never by crushing the life from their prey with their feet. In fact, as raptors go, a falcon's feet are not all that strong....sharp YES, strong no. Instead, they have a notch in the front of their beak that they do the "tab A into slot B" on the base of the prey's skull and then they snap the vertebrae. Instant off switch!
Here's another pic of a prairie falcon from 2013, shows that tomial tooth and the notch in the beak:
Just for the sake of keeping the record clear, these two photos are from a bird that was brought in August of 2013. That bird had a compounded fracture of the metacarpus (hand bones in us, wing tip to a bird). That bird recovered and was released in just over 4 weeks! There are far fewer tendons and ligaments up there necessary for flight control like in the mid wing area. I am seriously hoping this last week's bird didn't damage nerves or tendons, that would ground her for life. Too much critical flight control in that area, not really built to take much damage and recover.
