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 LC    Amur Falcon* Id (Atlas):
    Falco amurensis

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Amur Falcon, Eastern Red-footed/Manchurian Red-footed/ Amur Red-footed Falcon

Family
Falconidae (Falcons, Caracaras)

Size
26 - 31 cm

First Described (Guide)
Radde, 1863

Range (Guide)
Angola, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Botswana, Burundi, China (mainland) (B), Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Laos, Lesotho, Malawi, Maldives, Mongolia (B), Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, North Korea (B), Oman, Pakistan, Russia (Asian) (B), Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Thailand, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Hong Kong (China), Italy, Japan, Northern Mariana Islands, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, St Helena, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Yemen.

Transbaikalia (south-eastern Siberia) and north-eastern Mongolia east to Amurland and south to northern and eastern China and northern Korea; has bred in Assam (north-eastern India). Winters in southern Africa, mainly from Malawi to Transvaal.
 
Population
Estimated population is 1,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (28)...)

 
Amur Falcon (Falco amurensis) [XC455247]
     by Martin Billard from Wokha, Nagaland, India (call, flight call)

 
Amur Falcon (Falco amurensis) [XC832534]
     by Martin Billard from Ulaanbaatar, Xan-Uul, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (call)

Subspecies
Very close to Red-footed Falcon (Falco vespertinus), of which has frequently been considered subspecies, but differs in plumage, especially of female, morphology and behaviour. The two form a superspecies.

No subspecies.


References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Amur Falcon (Falco amurensis) - 10 files


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