Falcon Species

Subfamily "Falco" - True Falcons

Falcons

• The Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) - the largest of the falcon species. Breeds on Arctic coasts and the islands of North America, Europe and Asia.


• Red-necked Falcon, Falco chicquera


• Red-footed Falcon, Falco vespertinus


• Amur Falcon, Falco amurensis


• Eleonora's Falcon, Falco eleonorae


• Sooty Falcon, Falco concolor


• Aplomado Falcon, Falco femoralis


• Merlin Falcon, Falco columbarius


• Bat Falcon, Falco rufigularis


• Orange-breasted Falcon, Falco deiroleucus


• New Zealand Falcon, Falco novaeseelandiae


• Brown Falcon, Falco berigora


• Grey Falcon, Falco hypoleucos


• Lanner Falcon, Falco biarmicus


• Laggar Falcon, Falco jugger


• Saker Falcon, Falco cherrug


• Black Falcon, Falco subniger


• Gyr Falcon, Falco rusticolus


• Prairie Falcon, Falco mexicanus


• Peregrine Falcon, Falco peregrinus
  • Barbary Falcon, Falco (peregrinus) pelegrinoides


• Taita Falcon, Falco fasciinucha

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Kestrels

• The Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) found in Europe, Asia, and Africa


• The Greater Kestrel (Falco rupicoloides) found in Eastern to South Africa


• The smaller Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni) found in southern Europe, India, and Mediterranean Africa


• The American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) found in North America and South America


• The Fox Kestrel (Falco alopex) found in Equatorial Africa


• The Grey Kestrel (Falco ardosiaceus) found in Central to Southern Africa


• Dickinson's Kestrel (Falco dickinsoni) found in Eastern to Southern Africa


• Madagascar Kestrel, Falco newtoni


• The Banded Kestrel (Falco zoniventris) found on Madagascar


• Seychelles Kestrel, Falco araea


• The Seychelles Kestrel


• Mauritius Kestrel, Falco punctatus


• The Spotted Kestrel (Falco moluccensis) found in Indonesia


• The Nankeen Kestrel (Falco cenchroides) found in Australia and New Guinea

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Hobbies

• Eurasian Hobby, Falco subbuteo


• African Hobby, Falco cuvierii


• Oriental Hobby, Falco severus


• Australian Hobby, Falco longipennis

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Subfamily "Herpetotheres" – Laughing Falcon

• The Laughing Falcon (Herpetotheres cachinnans) - also called the Snake Hawk - is a medium-sized bird of prey found from both coastal slopes of Mexico through Central and South America south to Amazonian Peru and Bolivia, in Brazil, and northern Argentina and Paraguay

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Subfamily "Polyborinae" - sometimes considered part of their own subfamily "Caracarinae"

• Caracaras - Found in South and Central America, just reaching the southern United States.

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