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 NT    Laggar Falcon* Id (Atlas):
    Falco jugger

Description (10)
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Family
Falconidae (Falcons, Caracaras)

Size
41 - 46 cm
Wingspan: 88 - 107 cm

First Described (Guide)
Gray, 1834

Habitat
Dry open woodland and open country with scattered trees. From sea-level - 1,000 m.

Range (Guide)
Afghanistan (B) (NB), Bangladesh (B) (NB), India (B) (NB), Iran [Islamic Republic of] (B), Myanmar (B) (NB), Nepal (B) (NB), Pakistan (B) (NB).

Vagrant to Kazakhstan, Vietnam.

Unknown to Turkmenistan.

Pakistan eastern throughout most of India and Nepal to Assam and northern Burma; absent from extreme southern India. Also occurs locally in southern Afghanistan and possibly south-eastern Iran.
 
Population
Estimated population is 35,000 (2010) and decreasing.

Status NT
Pesticide use is the main threat.

For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files

 
Laggar Falcon (Falco jugger) [XC457546]
     by id from Blackbuck National Park (near Velavadar), Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India (call)

 
Laggar Falcon (Falco jugger) [XC112757]
     by Viral Patel & Pankaj Maheria from Churu, Rajasthan, India (call)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Lanner Falcon (Falco biarmicus), and possibly Saker Falcon (Falco cherrug), Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) and perhaps even Prairie Falcon (Falco mexicanus). Sometimes considered to be a subspecies of Lanner Falcon (Falco biarmicus).

No subspecies.


References
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Files:
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