| Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)] |
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Lanner Falcon* |
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Falco biarmicus |
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Description (10)
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Lanner Falcon
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Family
Falconidae (Falcons, Caracaras)
Size
43 - 51 cm
Wingspan: 100 cm
First Described (Guide)
Temminck, 1825
Albania, Algeria, Angola, Armenia (B), Azerbaijan (B) (NB), Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bulgaria (B), Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska) (B) (NB), Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Greece (B) (NB) (P), Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Iran [Islamic Republic of] (B), Iraq (NB), Israel (B), Italy (B) (NB), Jordan (B) (NB), Kenya, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Macedonia [The Former Yugoslav Republic of] (B) (NB), Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Montenegro (B), Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Palestinian Authority Territories (B), Qatar, Russia (European) (B), Rwanda, Saudi Arabia (B), Senegal, Serbia (B), Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Spain (NB), Sudan, Swaziland, Syrian Arab Republic (B), Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Tunisia, Turkey (B) (NB), Uganda, United Arab Emirates (NB), Western Sahara (B), Yemen (B) (NB), Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Vagrant to Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Gabon, Gibraltar, Kuwait, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia (Slovak Republic).
Population
Estimated population is 100,000 - 1,000,000 (2010).
Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (10)...)
Lanner Falcon (Falco biarmicus) [XC711324]
by Giovanni Leonardi from Kordiabe, Dangme West, Greater Accra Region, Ghana (call)
Lanner Falcon (Falco biarmicus) [XC710688]
by Andr\u00e1s Schmidt from Valley NE of Coyah, Guinea (call)
Subspecies
Forms superspecies with Laggar Falcon (Falco jugger), and possibly with Saker Falcon (Falco cherrug), Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) and Prairie Falcon (Falco mexicanus).
The following 5 subspecies are recognised:
- feldeggii Schlegel, 1843 - Southern Italy and Sicily east to Armenia and Azerbaijan, then south to Lebanon.
- erlangeri Kleinschmidt, O, 1901 - North-western Africa, from Mauritania to Morocco and Tunisia.
- tanypterus Schlegel, 1843 - North-eastern Africa, including Egypt and northern Sudan, to Arabia, Israel and Iraq.
- abyssinicus Neumann, 1904 - Senegal and Ghana east to Ethiopia and Somalia, and south to Uganda and northern Zaire.
- biarmicus Temminck, 1825 - Angola, southern Zaire and Kenya south to South Africa.
References
See References.
Files:
BirdLife International
For more information about the Lanner Falcon see...  BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
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