![]() The nest entrance becomes coated with the droppings of the falcons. Juveniles have a brown back, duller than adult females, with a rufous wash on the breast. The pair occupies a nest-chamber in the weaver communal nest. Description edit African Pygmy Falcon Female at Buffalo Springs National Reserve, Kenya Adult pygmy falcons are white below and on the face, grey above, and females having a chestnut back. This behaviour is mainly observed when the nest-site availability is reduced. They may perform local movements during the period of great aridity in the driest areas.ĭuring winter, it remains confined to the nest-chamber for up to 15 hours per day.Īfrican Pygmy Falcon performs undulating flight with bursts of fast wing-beats interspersed with dip and glides, as woodpeckers do.īreeding season occurs between June and December in NE Africa and between August and March in South Africa.Īfrican Pygmy Falcon is usually monogamous during one season, but it may be occasionally polyandrous, with two males or more attending the same nest. In some regions, such as the Kalahari, several Pygmy Falcons are resident in these nests.Īfrican Pygmy Falcon is usually resident in most part of the range. This tiny falcon invariably occupies part of the huge communal nesting structures of Sociable weavers. ![]() ![]() ![]() The adults are distinctive, with bare yellow, orange or red facial skin and cere, and a black plumage with variable amounts of white.During the breeding season, the African Pygmy Falcon performs some courtship displays such as bobbing the head, bowing and wagging the tail, accompanied by calls. Image by: 1, 2) - Argentina 3, 4, 5, 7, 8)Ĭlaudio Timm in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil 6) Cristiano Crolle - ChimLas Gaviotas, Argentina 9)Ĭharlie Westerinen - the Ushuaia, Argentina land fillĬaracara,_Yellow-headed Milvago chimachima Found:Ħ) Edward Weston - Esparza, Puntarenas, Costa Rica Image by: 1) Ron Knight - China 2) Ray_Cuiįalconet,_White-fronted Microhierax latifrons Found: Bornea (Malaysia)ġ) John Gerrard Keulemans 2) Wong_Tsu_ShiĬaracara,_Chimango Milvago chimango Found: South America The Pied Falconet has black-and-white plumage mainly black upperparts white underparts black mask white supercilium. Kestrel, Seychelles Falco araeus Found: Seychelles Islands (off African Image by: 1) Dick Daniels - World of Birds 2, 3)Įncounters 4) Sandy Cole - De Hoop Nature Reserve, South Africa 5) matlacha - South Africa 6) Bernard_Dupont - South Africa Kestrel,_Rock Falco rupicolus Found: Africa Kestrel, Maurtius Falco punctatus Found: Mauritus (island nation in Indian Ocean) Image by: 1) Fir Z 2) David Cook 3) Dick Daniels - Isalo, Madagascar 4) Zak_Pohlen Kestrel,_Madagascar Falco newtoni Found: Madagascar Hanover, Northern Cape, South Africa 3) Werner Witte - Turkey 4, 5) Sergey Yeliseev - Kazakhstan 6) Cristiano Crolle - Matera, Italy 7) Tony Morris - Spainġ) Male left, females others 2) Female 3 - 7) Male Lesser Kestrel call is chay-chay-chay Common Kestrel call is kee-kee-kee. Females of these species are more difficult to differentiate. Male Lesser Kestrel has neglible dots male Common Kestrel has many dots. Female has dark barred upperparts dark streaked underparts. The male Lesser Kestrel has a brown back gray head some black on tail pale underparts. Image by: 1) Len Blumin - California 2) Richard Droker - Washington 3, 4) Dick Daniels - Eagle Encoumters, South Africa 5) Dick - Sunset Beach, North Carolina 6, 7, 8, 9)ĭick - Carolina Raptor Center 10) Larry Meade - Florida 11) Bill Bouton - California 12) Cristiano Crolle - Knysna, South Africaįalcon,_Prairie Falco mexicanus Found: arid western North America Peregrine Falcon has strongly streaked underparts, Tait Falcon has relatively plain underparts. Adult Peregrine Falcon has horizontal lines on belly Praire Falcon has vertical lines on belly. Barbary Falcon has paler upperparts than Peregrine Falcon. Aplomado Falcon has white eyebrow (supercilium) Peregrine Falcon does not. The Peregrine Falcon has slate-gray to bluish-black upperparts black head, typical falcon "moustache", wingtips white upper-breast white to rusty lower-breast and belly with dark barring yellow eye-ring, cere, feet.
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