Red-footed Falcon Falco vespertinus [Linnaeus, 1766] |
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Order:
Accipitriformes
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Family: Falconidae |
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BTO Codes:
FV, REFFA
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EURING No: 3070 | |
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Number in Britain:
14 records/year
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Conservation Status:
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Status in UK:
(A) Scarce Visitor
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Subspecies:
Monotypic
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Length:
30 cm
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Wingspan: 72 cm |
Weight:
M/F: 160 g
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Scientific name from:
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L.: falco=falcom (from falcis=sickle, ref hooked talons) and L.: vespertinus=of evening (from vesper=evening) |
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World Distribution:
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BREEDS: e Europe & c Asia, WINTERS Africa s of Sahara |
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Habitat:
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Open woodland, steppe, farmland |
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Diet:
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Insects, young fed on small vertebrates |
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First Record:
Norfolk, 1830
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Total Number of Records (1950-2007):
698
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Other Names |
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| Gaelic: Seabhag-dhearg-chasach | Welsh: Cudyll Troedgoch |
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Danish:
Aftenfalk
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Dutch: Roodpootvalk |
| Finnish: Punajalkahaukka | French: Faucon kobez |
| German: Rotfussfalke | Hungarian: Kék vércse |
| Icelandic: Kvöldfálki | Irish: Fabhcún Cosdearg |
| Italian: Falco cuculo | Norwegian: Aftenfalk |
| Polish: Kobczyk zwyczajny | Portuguese: Falcão-pés-vermelhos |
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Spanish:
Cernícalo patirrojo
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Swedish: Aftonfalk |
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