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Falco peregrinus anatum, described by Bonaparte in 1838, [38] is known as the American peregrine falcon or "duck hawk"; its scientific name means "duck peregrine falcon". At one time, it was partly included in F. p. leucogenys .
The shaheen falcon (Falco peregrinus peregrinator) is a non-migratory subspecies of the peregrine falcon found in southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to southeastern China. [2] [3] It has also been described as a migratory subspecies. [4] Other common names for the subspecies include the black shaheen. [5]
The word peregrine originally meant "foreign", from the Latin peregrinus.The term broadened to mean "wandering" or "travelling" from the habits of young peregrine falcons (falco peregrinus, meaning "pilgrim falcon" in Medieval Latin), which would travel long distances to find a suitable nesting place in a high place. [1]
Peale's falcon (Falco peregrinus pealei) is a subspecies of the peregrine falcon. This subspecies was first identified by the ornithologist Robert Ridgway in 1873, named in honor of Titian Ramsay Peale. These birds are the largest subspecies of peregrines (on average) anywhere in the world.
The peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), also known simply as the peregrine, is a cosmopolitan bird of prey in the family Falconidae. It is a medium to large-sized falcon, females being larger and about the size of a large crow, with a blue-gray back, barred white underside, and a black head and "mustache". There are seventeen subspecies.
The genus Falco was introduced in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae. [13] The type species is the merlin (Falco columbarius). [14] The genus name Falco is Late Latin meaning a "falcon" from falx, falcis, meaning "a sickle", referring to the claws of the bird.
Calidus is Latin meaning fiery, spirited or rash. It can refer to: Aircraft ... Falco peregrinus calidus, a species of Peregrine Falcon; Rhodacaroides calidus, ...
Eurasian hobby, Falco subbuteo Linnaeus, 1758; Lanner falcon, Falco biarmicus Temminck, 1825; Saker falcon, Falco cherrug Gray, JE, 1834 (A) Peregrine falcon, Falco peregrinus Tunstall, 1771; Ancient Egyptian: its hieroglyphic sign stands for the deity Horus the one far up/high. Barbary falcon, Falco peregrinus pelegrinoides