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saker falcon (Falco cherrug)
Subject: saker falcon (Falco cherrug)
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Falco saker - 1700-1880 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - UBA01 IZ18200096.jpg
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saker falcon (Falco cherrug)


Falco saker
Date 1700-1880
Artist Jacques de Sève (Fl. 1742–1742); Creator:Baron
Source/Photographer Buffon I p. 248 pl. XIV
Old Latin name Falco saker
New Latin name Falco cherrug
Common name Nederlands: Sakervalk
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Falco_saker_-_1700-1880_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ18200096.tif

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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