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The lanner falcon (Falco biarmicus) is a medium-sized bird of prey that breeds in Africa, southeast Europe and just into Asia. It prefers open habitat and is mainly resident, but some birds disperse more widely after the breeding season. A large falcon, it preys on birds and bats. [2]
The hobbies seem to be one of the Falco lineages which emerged around the Miocene-Pliocene boundary some 8-5 million years ago and subsequently radiated - in this case throughout the Old World. Their relationship to the peregrine falcon group and the kestrels is not well resolved, however; taxa such as the red-footed falcon appear in some ...
Falconidae is a family of diurnal birds of prey and includes caracaras, laughing falcon, forest falcons, falconets, pygmy falcons, falcons and kestrels.They are small to medium-sized birds of prey, ranging in size from the black-thighed falconet, which can weigh as little as 35 grams (1.2 oz), to the gyrfalcon, which can weigh as much as 1,735 grams (61.2 oz).
Amur falcon (cernícalo del Amur), Falco amurensis (A) Eleonora's falcon (halcón de Eleonora), Falco eleonorae; Merlin (Esmerejón), Falco columbarius; Eurasian hobby (alcotán europeo), Falco subbuteo (A – Canary Islands) Lanner falcon (halcón borní), Falco biarmicus (A) Saker falcon (halcón sacre), Falco cherrug (A) endangered
Sometimes, all hierofalcons are lumped into one species, Falco hierofalco. [ 2 ] Possible examples of such extinct hierofalcon lineages include Falco bakalovi occurring from the Early Pliocene of Bulgaria to Early Pleistocene of Spain and the Czech Republic [ 3 ] and Falco antiquus known from the Middle Pleistocene of Noailles ( France ) and ...
Eurasian hobby - Falco subbuteo - (French: faucon hobereau) breeding visitor and passage migrant; Lanner falcon - Falco biarmicus - (French: faucon lanier) accidental visitor; Saker falcon - Falco cherrug - (French: faucon sacre) accidental visitor; Peregrine falcon - Falco peregrinus - (French: faucon pèlerin) resident breeder
A U.S. Border Patrol agent whose killing in Vermont during a traffic stop near the Canadian border has been tied to a cultlike group is scheduled to be buried with full military honors Saturday at ...
This is a list of the bird species recorded in São Tomé and Príncipe.As São Tomé and Príncipe is a series of islands, its avifauna grows whenever a "new" species arrives or is recorded for the first time; the list comprises 176 species, of which 25 are endemic, 4 have been introduced by humans, and several are rare or accidental (often termed "vagrants").