Red-necked Falcon
Falco chicquera - Faucon chicquera
Systematics
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Order:
Falconiformes
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Family:
Falconidés
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Genus:
Falco
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Species:
chicquera
Descriptor
Biometrics
- Size: 36 cm
- Wingspan: 55 à 70 cm.
- Weight: 139 à 305 g
Geographic range
Identification
Red-necked Falcon (Falco chicquera) is a species of bird in the Falconidae family.
Subspecific information 3 subspecies
- Falco chicquera chicquera (se Iran through India to Bangladesh)
- Falco chicquera ruficollis (Senegal to w Ethiopia, e Africa to ne Zimbabwe and c Mozambique)
- Falco chicquera horsbrughi (Namibia, Botswana, w Zimbabwe and n, nw South Africa)
Foreign names
- Faucon chicquera,
- Alcotán turumti,
- falcão-de-nuca-vermelha,
- Rotkopffalke,
- vörösnyakú sólyom,
- Roodkopsmelleken,
- Falco collorosso,
- rödhuvad falk,
- Rødhodefalk,
- sokol červenohlavý,
- dřemlík rudohlavý,
- Rødhovedet Dværgfalk,
- palmuhaukka,
- Rooinekvalk,
- falcó cap-roig,
- sokół rudogłowy,
- rudkakla piekūns,
- Турумти,
- アカガシラチョウゲンボウ,
- 红头隼,
- 紅頸隼,
Habitat
Forest : ; Forest : Subtropical/Tropical Dry, Subtropical/Tropical Dry ; Savanna : ; Savanna : Dry, Dry ; Shrubland : ; Shrubland : Subtropical/Tropical Dry, Subtropical/Tropical Dry ; Grassland : ; Grassland : Subtropical/Tropical Dry, Subtropical/Tropical Dry, Subtropical/Tropical Seasonally Wet/Flooded, Subtropical/Tropical Seasonally Wet/Flooded
Threats - protection
IUCN conservation status
Extinct
Threatened
Least
concern
concern
Extinc
in the Wild
in the Wild
Near
threatened
threatened
Not
evaluated
evaluated
EX
EW
CR
EN
VU
NT
LC
NE
Sources of information
- Vol. 2 - Handbook of the Birds of the World, Josep del Hoyo-Andrew Elliot--Jordi Sargatal
- Raptors of the World, a field guide, Ferguson-Lees James et Christie David
- Birds of Africa South of the Sahara, Ian Sinclair and Peter Ryan
- Birds of East Africa, C.A.W. Guggisberg
- Birds of Prey of Africa and its Islands, Alan and Meg Kemp
- Birds of Southern Africa, Ian Sinclair, Phil Hockey, Warwick Tarboton
- Avibase, Lepage Denis
- Global Raptor Information Network,
- Wikipédia, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
- IOC World Bird List (v14.1), Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2024-04-18.
Other sources of interest
- Accipitriformes
- Aegotheliformes
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- Cariamiformes
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- Columbiformes
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- Cuculiformes
- Eurypygiformes
- Falconiformes
- Galliformes
- Gaviiformes
- Gruiformes
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- Mesitornithiformes
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- Nyctibiiformes
- Opisthocomiformes
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