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 LC    Barred Forest-Falcon* Id (Atlas):
    Micrastur ruficollis

Description (10)
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Family
Falconidae (Falcons, Caracaras)

Size
38 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Vieillot, 1817)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. Also, subtropical and tropical montane moist forest, plantations. From sea-level - 2,700 m.

Range (Guide)
Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela.

Population
Estimated population is 500,000 - 4,999,999 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files

 
Barred Forest Falcon (Micrastur ruficollis) [XC533949]
     by id from RNA Arrierito Anqioque\u00f1o, Anor\u00ed, Antioquia, Colombia (call)

 
Barred Forest Falcon (Micrastur ruficollis) [XC897585]
     by Jerome Fischer from Intervales State Park. Carmo road, Brazil (call)

Subspecies
Until recently considered to include Lined Forest-Falcon (Micrastur gilvicollis), but voice and morphology support specific status for Lined Forest-Falcon (Micrastur gilvicollis), which is widely sympatric with present species.

Possible subspecies oaxacae and kalinowskii currently included in subspecies guerilla and zonothorax respectively.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

  • guerilla Cassin, 1848   -  Southern Mexico to Nicaragua.
  • interstes Bangs, 1907   -  Costa Rica and Panama to western Colombia and western Ecuador.
  • zonothorax (Cabanis, 1866)   -  Colombia and Venezuela, in eastern Andean foothills, southern perhaps to Bolivia.
  • concentricus (Lesson, R, 1830)   -  Southern Venezuela, the Guianas and Amazonia.
  • ruficollis (Vieillot, 1817)   -  South of Amazonia in Brazil, Paraguay and north-central and north-eastern Argentina.
  • olrogi Amadon, 1964   -  North-western Argentina, in subtropical forests.



References
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Files:
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