From: Pierre@home.be (Pierre)
Subject: Birds of prey - Finished > File 01 of 10 - PO_bop_118_Faucon_sacre.jpg
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 16:17:22 GMT
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The saker falcon (Falco cherrug) is a large species of falcon. This species breeds from eastern Europe eastwards across Asia to Manchuria. It is mainly migratory except in the southernmost parts of its range, wintering in Ethiopia, the Arabian peninsula, northern Pakistan and western China.
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Scientific Name: Falco cherrug Gray, 1834
Common Names: Saker Falcon, Saker
French: Faucon sacre; German: Würgfalke; Spanish: Halcón sacre
Taxonomy: Falco cherrug J. E. Gray, 1834, India.
