Falco subbuteo is the scientific name for which member of the falcon family?
"Taita falcon The Taita falcon (""Falco fasciinucha"") is a small falcon found in central and eastern Africa. It was first described from the Taita Hills of Kenya from which it derives its name. This small falcon is fairly distinctive, but may offer some confusion with a few other species. The rufous belly causes resemblance with African hobby, but important features to look for are a white throat and the obvious rufous patches on the nape. Alsom the underwing coverts are uniform rufous, whereas the African hobby has more streaking. The most obvious underwing feature, though, is the flight feathers are"
"containing ""Daptrius"", ""Milvago"", ""Phalcobœnus"", and ""Polyborus"". ""Ibycter americanus"" is included as ""Daptrius americanus"". Whilst recognizing ""three major, deep divisions in the Falconidae"", the South American Classification Committee (SACC) of the American Ornithologists' Union voted in 2007 to recognize two subfamilies: Herpetotherinae containing the forest falcons; and Falconinae containing the caracaras and true falcons. Based on recent research in molecular genetics, John Boyd places the spot-winged falconet (""Spiziapteryx"") in Caracarinae, and the forest falcons in Herpetotherinae. He also comments that ""many of the caracaras are closely related, and it would not be unreasonable to merge ""Ibycter"", ""Milvago"", and ""Phalcoboenus"" into ""Daptrius""""."
"Peregrine falcon The peregrine falcon (""Falco peregrinus""), also known as the peregrine, and historically as the duck hawk in North America, is a widespread bird of prey (raptor) in the family Falconidae. A large, crow-sized falcon, it has a blue-grey back, barred white underparts, and a black head. As is typical of bird-eating raptors, peregrine falcons are sexually dimorphic, with females being considerably larger than males. The peregrine is renowned for its speed, reaching over during its characteristic hunting stoop (high-speed dive), making it the fastest member of the animal kingdom. According to a ""National Geographic"" TV programme, the highest"
"Lanner falcon ""Falco biarmicus feldeggi"" and the black-headed wagtail, ""Motacilla flava feldegg"", the Balkan and Black Sea sub-species of the yellow wagtail. Christoph Feldegg Baron Christoph Freiherr Fellner von Feldegg (13 October 1779 – 10 May 1845, Leipzig) was an Austrian army officer and naturalist. Fellner was born in a noble family in Krumau, Bohemia, where his father was a princely forester in Schwarzenberg. Fellner went to a military academy in Vienna and in 1808, became a sub-lieutenant in an army battalion and fought in the Battle of Aspern-Essling under Archduke Karl. He also served in the Regiment de Vaux"
"still a component of a more inclusive clade. Three subspecies of Australian hobby are usually recognised. These are: Of the hobbys in existence including the African hobby (""Falco cuvierii"") and the Oriental hobby (""Falco severus""), the Australian hobby is closely related to the northern hobby (""Falco subbuteo"") which inhabits Eurasia and migrates to Africa during winter. Smaller than other falcons, the Australian hobby is relatively slender and long winged. Its plumage varies in colour depending on sex, age and environment with a darker form in humid areas and a lighter form in drier environments. Generally the hobby displays a black"
"such as dragonflies. The smaller male takes more insects, and the female more birds and bats. The flight is direct and powerful. This falcon is partly crepuscular, as the bats in its diet suggest. It lays two or three brown eggs in an unlined treehole nest. Bat falcon The bat falcon (""Falco rufigularis"") is a falcon that is a resident breeder in tropical Mexico, Central and South America, and Trinidad. It was long known as ""Falco albigularis""; the names ""Falco fusco-coerulescens"" or ""Falco fuscocaerulescens"", long used for the aplomado falcon, are now believed to refer to the present species. The"
"these are grouped into subfamilies. Also, the placement of the laughing falcon (""Herpetotheres"") and the spot-winged falconet (""Spiziapteryx"") varies. One common approach uses two subfamilies Polyborinae and Falconinae. The first contains the caracaras, forest falcons, and laughing falcon. All species in this group are native to the Americas. The composition of Falconidae is disputed, and Polyborninae is not featured in the American Ornithologists' Union checklists for North and South American birds that are produced by its Classification Committees (NACC and SACC). The Check-list of North American Birds considers the laughing falcon a true falcon (Falconinae) and replaces Polyborinae with Caracarinae"
"though Brown and Amadon supported separating the two genera. Phylogenetic analyses of morphological characteristics found the white-rumped falcon to be basal to the ""Falco"" clade, but separate from the clade containing the pygmy falcon (or African pigmy falcon, ""Polihierax semitorquatus"") and ""Microhierax"" (falconets or pigmy falcons). Research in molecular genetics has also found that the white-rumped falcon is more closely related to the ""Falco"" falcons than it is to the pygmy falcon, and indicates two major clades within the extant members of the falcon subfamily, Falconinae. Boyd places the ""Microhierax"" falconets with the pygmy falcon in tribe Polihieracini, and the"
"and breast is buffy, and the cinnamon on the underparts is paler, as are the feet. This species may be confused with the bat falcon (""F. rufigularis"") and the orange-breasted falcon (""F. deiroleucus""), which have similar white-black-rust patterns below, but those species are built more like peregrine falcons and have solidly blackish heads and darker rufous bellies. These two species are generally considered to belong to the same lineage as the aplomado falcon. Two other ""Falco"" species of the Americas, merlin (""F. columbarius"") and American kestrel (""F. sparverius""), seem to be closer to the Aplomado group than most other falcons,"
"family Falconidae. The largest member of the genus Micrastur, it has two recognized subspecies: ""M. s. naso"" and ""M. s. semitorquatus"". The former occurs in regions starting from Mexico south descending through Central America towards the west Andes in Colombia, Ecuador and extreme northwest Peru. Alternatively, the latter is found mostly on the east side of the Andes. Other members of the Micrastur genus include: ""M. semitorquatus"" at first was thought to include the species ""M. buckleyi"", however this conclusion was disregarded after the description of a female and immature Buckley's forest falcon was done by Amadon (1964). The latter"
"Ashy Woodswallow. The Pied falconet belongs to the family Falconidae of the order Falconiformes. The family Falconidae is split into two sub-families, the Herpetotherinae and the Falconinae. The Falconinae family is then also split into two tribes, the first tribe is the Caracini, which includes five Neoptropical genera: ""Daptrius, Ibycter, Milvago, Caracara"" and ""Phalcoboenus"". The second tribe is the Falconini which includes the genera ""Polihierax, Falco, Spiziaptteryx"" and ""Microhierax."" The species belonging to the genera ""Polihierax"" and ""Microhierax"" are the smallest diurnal raptors in the world. The Pied falconet is one of the five species in the ""Microhierax"" genus. The"
"Bat falcon The bat falcon (""Falco rufigularis"") is a falcon that is a resident breeder in tropical Mexico, Central and South America, and Trinidad. It was long known as ""Falco albigularis""; the names ""Falco fusco-coerulescens"" or ""Falco fuscocaerulescens"", long used for the aplomado falcon, are now believed to refer to the present species. The female bat falcon, at 30.5 cm length, is much larger than the 23-cm-long male. Adults have a black back, head, and tail. The throat, upper breast, and neck sides are creamy white, the lower breast and belly are black, finely barred white, and the thighs and"
"Amur falcon 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. Males are dark grey with reddish brown thighs and undertail coverts; reddish orange eye-ring, cere, and feet. Females are duller above, with dark scaly markings on white underparts, an orange eye ring, cere, and legs. Only a pale wash of"
"Réunion kestrel The Réunion kestrel (""Falco duboisi"") is an extinct bird of prey which belongs to the falcon family. It inhabited the Mascarene island of Réunion and was part of the Western Indian Ocean radiation of kestrels. Known from subfossil bones and the writings of Dubois published in 1674, this bird was larger than its relative ""F. punctatus"" on Mauritius, being about the size of a common kestrel, or around 35 cm from head to tail, with males being noticeably smaller than females. This trait, while present in most birds of prey, is most pronounced in the larger, bird-eating species"
"Indian stamp in a ""birds of prey"" series showed a picture of an osprey, with the incorrect denomination and the name ""Shahin Kohila"", the Hindi name for female shaheen falcons; one of these stamps sold for £11,500 in a 2011 London auction. Shaheen falcon The Shaheen Falcon (""Falco peregrinus peregrinator"") is a non-migratory subspecies of the peregrine falcon found mainly in South Asia. It has also been described as a migratory subspecies. Other common names for the subspecies include the Black Shaheen and Indian peregrine falcon. The word ""shaheen"" in these names may also be spelled as ""shahin"". This species"
"Red-necked falcon The red-necked falcon (""Falco chicquera"") is a bird of prey in the falcon family with two disjunct populations, one in India and the other in Africa. This medium-sized falcon has bluish grey wings and upper body, a chestnut red cap with short chin straps passing through the eye. The primary feathers of the wing are black and a single black band at the tip of the tail are distinctive. The Indian subspecies ""Falco chicquera chicquera"" also known as the red-headed merlin or red-headed falcon is found mainly in the open plains of the India Subcontinent although it is"
"White-rumped falcon The white-rumped falcon (""Polihierax insignis"") is a species of bird of prey in the family Falconidae native to Indochina. It is sometimes placed in its own monotypic genus, Neohierax. Philip Sclater, secretary of the Zoological Society of London, presented two skins at the meeting of 7 November 1871, on behalf of the society's president Arthur Hay, Viscount Walden. A brief account of this presentation was published in 1872, becoming the first formal description of the species. In 1922, proposed a new monotypic genus for this bird, ""Neohierax"". During the 20th century, most taxonomic authorities retained it in ""Polyhierax"","
"and Micrasturinae. On the other hand, the Check-list of South American Birds classifies all caracaras as true falcons and puts the laughing falcon and forest falcons into the subfamily Herpetotherinae. Based on genetic research from the late 1990s to 2015, Boyd uses three subfamilies. He places the laughing falcon (""Herpetotheres"") with the forest falcons (""Micrastur"") into Herpetotherinae (similar to SACC). Caracarinae is separate (similar to NACC), but also contains the spot-winged falconet (""Spiziapteryx""). The other falcons are placed in Falconinae. Falconinae, in its traditional classification, contains the falcons, falconets, and pygmy falcons. Depending on the authority, Falconinae may also include"
"for the use of falconers. As can be seen, the peregrine is still genetically close to the hierofalcons, though their lineages diverged in the Late Pliocene (maybe some 2.5–2 mya in the Gelasian). Numerous subspecies of ""Falco peregrinus"" have been described, with 19 accepted by the 1994 ""Handbook of the Birds of the World"", which considers the Barbary falcon of the Canary Islands and coastal North Africa to be two subspecies (""pelegrinoides"" and ""babylonicus"") of ""Falco peregrinus,"" rather than a distinct species, ""F. pelegrinoides."" The following map shows the general ranges of these 19 subspecies: Two of the subspecies listed"
"Shaheen falcon The Shaheen Falcon (""Falco peregrinus peregrinator"") is a non-migratory subspecies of the peregrine falcon found mainly in South Asia. It has also been described as a migratory subspecies. Other common names for the subspecies include the Black Shaheen and Indian peregrine falcon. The word ""shaheen"" in these names may also be spelled as ""shahin"". This species was termed as the black shaheen by falconers to separate it from the ""true"" shaheen of Persian literature. Scholars of Persian and the Russian ornithologist Dementiev have noted that the name shaheen in Persian literature actually referred to ""Falco peregrinus babylonicus"" which"
"the subtribes ""Labeoina"", ""Garraina"" and perhaps ""Banganina"". Notable genera are ""Crossocheilus"", ""Epalzeorhynchos"" and ""Garra"", which contain some of the popular aquarium fishes often called ""algae eaters"", e.g. the Siamese algae-eater (""Crossocheilus siamensis""). ""Labeo"" – the type genus of this subfamily – contains many sizeable species which are often used as food. Anatomically, the labeonins are distinguished by the Weberian apparatus contacting the skull with the supraneural bones, and its basioccipital process being concave in cross-section. The first vertebra has a parapophysis that is elongated to forward and partially overlaps the basioccipital process. The fourth vertebra, meanwhile, has a short but"
"peregrinus peregrinator"". The subspecies name ""peregrinator"", Latin for a wanderer or habitual traveler, reflects its traveling ability. The common English name ""shahin"" should not be confused with the same word in the Indo-European language Persian, the Turkic language Turkish, and the Afroasiatic language Arabic, where it may refer to falcons or a species of falcon. In the Indo-European language Hindi, ""shahin"" or ""shahin kohi"" (koh refers to a hill) refer to the female of the ""peregrinator"" subspecies, while males of the subspecies are referred to as ""kohila"". The shaheen is a small and powerful-looking falcon with blackish upperparts, rufous underparts"
"The tree selected is most often one in a hedge or on the extreme edge of a spinney, whence the bird can observe intruders from a considerable distance. It lays 2–4 eggs. Incubation is said to take 28 days and both parents share in this duty, though the female does the greater part. It is a very bold and courageous bird and was used in falconry, trained to hawk birds like quails, larks, hoopoes, drongos, etc. Eurasian hobby The Eurasian hobby (""Falco subbuteo""), or just simply hobby, is a small slim falcon. It belongs to a rather close-knit group of"
"nest or termitaria. The guaiabero was first described as ""Psittacus lunulatus"" by Tyrolean naturalist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1786. The only member of its genus, it is distinctive. Four subspecies have been recognised. The nominate race ""lunulatus"" occurs on Luzon, birds on Leyte are darker with a more distinctive blue collar and some purple-tinge on the face and classified as subspecies ""intermedius"", those on Mindanao and Panaon have greener cheeks and are classified as subspecies ""mindanensis"", and finally those on Samar are similar to the Leyte subspecies, but with a more yellow tone overall and classified as ""callainipictus"". Guaiabero The"
"Laughing falcon The laughing falcon (""Herpetotheres cachinnans""), also called the snake hawk (erroneously, since it is not a hawk), is a medium-sized bird of prey in the falcon family (Falconidae), the only member of the genus Herpetotheres. This Neotropical species is a specialist snake-eater. Its common and scientific names both refer to its distinctive voice. Its English name comes from its loud voice, as does the specific name ""cachinnans"", Latin for ""laughing aloud"" or ""laughing immoderately"". The generic name ""Herpetotheres"" refers to its preferred food; it is Latinized Ancient Greek, derived from ""[h]erpeton"" (ἑρπετόν, ""reptile"") + ""therizein"" (θερίζειν, ""to mow"
"Papilio chikae Papilio chikae, the Luzon peacock swallowtail, is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is endemic to the Philippines. It has two subspecies, with ""P. c. chikae"" from Luzon and ""P. c. hermeli"" from Mindoro. The latter was originally described as a separate species, but it resembles the nominate subspecies and there are no significant differences in their genitalia, leading recent authorities to treat them as subspecies of a single species. It is listed as endangered by the IUCN and ESA, and is included on Appendix I of CITES, thereby making international trade illegal. Their forewings"
"observed. Two subspecies are traditionally recognised: ""Pelobates fuscus fuscus"" (from central Europe) and ""Pelobates fuscus insubricus"" (from Northern Italy). In reality there is no physical or behavioural character allowing to distinguish these supposed subspecies. A recent study showed that there is no haplotype segregation for the populations of Northern Italy, that, therefore, are not to be ascribed to a different subspecies . Haplotypes from some Northern Italian valleys are very characteristic and support a different conception in terms of conservation: not for a different taxonomic position but, instead, for a peculiar differentiation. Populations from eastern Europe appear sufficiently different that"
"Orange-breasted falcon The orange-breasted falcon (""Falco deiroleucus"") is a bird of the falcon family. It is probably closely related to and looks like a larger version of the bat falcon. These two, in turn, are probably closest to the aplomado falcon and constitute a rather old American lineage of ""Falco""s. It is found from southern Mexico to northern Argentina. It's a medium-sized falcon at long and a weight of . It is a bird predator, with strong talons that enable it to catch prey in flight, and is considered by some – such as the German-Brazilian ornithologist Helmut Sick –"
"Black falcon The black falcon (""Falco subniger"") is a medium-large falcon that is endemic to Australia. It can be found in all mainland states and territories and yet is regarded as Australia's most under-studied falcon. The information in this section is based on recent descriptions by several authors (notably, Debus & Davies 2012, Debus & Olsen 2011, Morcombe 2002 and Birds in Backyards n.d.). Size (adult, beak to tail): 45 – 56 cm (average 50 cm), tail makes up about half the length. Note: Females are larger than males - this is a form of sexual dimorphism. Average weight: 833"
"bite. Laughing falcon The laughing falcon (""Herpetotheres cachinnans""), also called the snake hawk (erroneously, since it is not a hawk), is a medium-sized bird of prey in the falcon family (Falconidae), the only member of the genus Herpetotheres. This Neotropical species is a specialist snake-eater. Its common and scientific names both refer to its distinctive voice. Its English name comes from its loud voice, as does the specific name ""cachinnans"", Latin for ""laughing aloud"" or ""laughing immoderately"". The generic name ""Herpetotheres"" refers to its preferred food; it is Latinized Ancient Greek, derived from ""[h]erpeton"" (ἑρπετόν, ""reptile"") + ""therizein"" (θερίζειν, ""to"
"A member of the family Rallidae, it has three subspecies: ""Fulica americana alai"", ""F. a. caribaea"", and ""F. a. ardesiaca"". These subspecies, however, are sometimes considered to be their own separate species. Including these 'subspecies', there are 11 members of the genus Fulica distributed across the globe. Coot fossils from the Middle Pleistocene of California have been described as ""Fulica hesterna"" but cannot be separated from the present-day American coot. However, the Pleistocene coot ""Fulica shufeldti"" (formerly ""F. minor""), famously known as part of the Fossil Lake fauna, quite possibly was a paleosubspecies of the American coot (as ""Fulica americana"
"the caracaras and/or the laughing falcon. Boyd further divides the Falconinae into two tribes: Polyhieracini containing the ""Microhierax"" falconets, plus Falconini containing the ""Falco"" falcons. The pygmy falcon and the white-rumped (pygmy) falcon are split into separate genera (""Polyhierax"" and ""Neohierax""), with the former placed into Polyhieracini and the latter into Falconini. Family: Falconidae Falconidae The falcons and caracaras are around 60 species of diurnal birds of prey that make up the family Falconidae. The family is divided into two subfamilies, Polyborinae, which includes the caracaras and forest falcons, and Falconinae, the falcons, kestrels and falconets (""Microhierax"" and ""Spiziapteryx""). They"
"rufa""), two of Pelecanidae, one of Scopidae (hamerkop ""Scopus umbretta""), 19 of Ardeidae (includes one slaty egret ""Egretta vinaceigula"", vulnerable and one enedangered species of Madagascar pond-heron ""Ardeola idae""), one of Scopidae (hamerkop ""Scopus umbretta"", two Pelecanidae, two of Phalacrocoracidae, one of Anhingidae (darter ""Anhinga melanogaster""), 13 of Falconidae (including lesser kestrel ""Falco naumann"" vulnerable species, three near threatened species namely, red-footed falcon ""Falco vespertinus"", sooty falcon ""Falco concolor"" and Taita falcon ""Falco fasciinucha""), 49 of Accipitridae (including one endangered species Egyptian vulture ""Neophron percnopterus"", two vulnerable species namely, Cape griffon ""Gyps coprotheres"" and white-headed vulture ""Trigonoceps occipitalis"" and three"