Sooty Falcon (Falco concolor)

Family
Falconidae (Falcons, Caracaras)

Size
32 - 35 cm

First Described (Guide)
Temminck, 1825

Habitat
Hot desert. Also, dry savanna, subtropical and tropical dry forest, lowland dry and moist shrubland, moist forest. From sea-level - 1,500 m.

Range (Guide)

Bahrain (B), Chad, Djibouti (B), Egypt (B), Eritrea (B), Israel (B), Jordan (B), Kenya, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (B), Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Niger, Oman (B), Pakistan, R�union, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia (B), Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, United Arab Emirates (B), Yemen (B), Zambia.

Vagrant to Cyprus, Iran [Islamic Republic of] (B), Kuwait, Mali, Malta, Namibia, Qatar, Seychelles, Turkey, Zimbabwe.

Eastern Libya through Egypt, Israel and Jordan to coasts of Red Sea and Persian Gulf, east to south-western Pakistan. Winters in Madagascar, and also in south-eastern Africa.

Population
Estimated population is 10,000 - 19,999 (2010) and decreasing.

Status VU
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (14)...)

Sooty Falcon (Falco concolor) [XC739080]
by David Darrell-Lambert from Duba, Tabuk Province, Saudi Arabia (alarm call)

Sooty Falcon (Falco concolor) [XC739072]
by David Darrell-Lambert from Duba, Tabuk Province, Saudi Arabia (call)

Subspecies
Sometimes considered to form superspecies with Eleonora's Falcon (Falco eleonorae).

No subspecies.

Similar Species
Resembles dark morph Eleonora's Falcon (Falco eleonorae) but with more prominent yellow cere, con-colourous underwings and jizz more similar to Eurasian Hobby (Falco subbuteo). Juvenile even more similar, best seperated by stuctural differences and broad dark terminal band on undertail.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Sooty Falcon (Falco concolor) - 10 files

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