Amur falcon (Falco amurensis)

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Amur falcon (Falco amurensis)

S30 Road North of Lower Sabie, Kruger NP, SOUTH AFRICA
Date 22 January 2014, 15:37
Source Amur Falcon (Falco amurensis) male
Author Bernard DUPONT https://www.flickr.com/people/65695019@N07 from FRANCE
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amur_Falcon_(Falco_amurensis)_male_(16794543415).jpg

The Amur falcon (Falco amurensis) is a small raptor of the falcon family. It breeds in south-eastern Siberia and Northern China before migrating in large flocks across India and over the Arabian Sea to winter in Southern Africa. It was earlier treated as a subspecies of the red-footed falcon (Falco vespertinus) and known as the eastern red-footed falcon.
Order: Falconiformes
Family: Falconidae
Genus: Falco
Species: Falco amurensis Radde, 1863
Synonyms: Erythropus amurensis; Falco vespertinus var. amurensis

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Scientific Name: Falco amurensis Radde, 1863 Common Names: Amur Falcon, Eastern Red-footed Falcon French: Faucon de l’Amour; German: Amurfalke; Spanish: Cernícalo del Amur Taxonomy: Falco vespertinus var. amurensis Radde, 1863, Zeya River, Amurland.

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