Rock Kestrel
Falco rupicolus - Crécerelle des rochers
Systematics
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Order:
Falconiformes
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Family:
Falconidés
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Genus:
Falco
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Species:
rupicolus
Descriptor
Biometrics
- Size: 33 cm
- Wingspan: -
- Weight: 136 à 314 g
Geographic range
Identification
Rock Kestrel (Falco rupicolus) is a species of bird in the Falconidae family.
Subspecific information monotypic species
Foreign names
- Crécerelle des rochers,
- Cernícalo Africano,
- peneireiro-africano,
- Felsenfalke,
- Rotsvalk,
- Falco sudafricano,
- klippfalk,
- Klippefalk,
- sokol savanový,
- Klippefalk,
- Rooivalk (Kransvalk),
- pustułka skalna,
- Скальная пустельга,
- ミナミアフリカチョウゲンボウ,
- 岩隼,
- 岩隼,
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
- Birds of Africa South of the Sahara, Ian Sinclair and Peter Ryan
- Raptors of the World, a field guide, Ferguson-Lees James et Christie David
- Vol. 2 - Handbook of the Birds of the World, Josep del Hoyo-Andrew Elliot--Jordi Sargatal
- Birds of Southern Africa, Ian Sinclair, Phil Hockey, Warwick Tarboton
- Avibase, Lepage Denis
- IOC World Bird List (v14.1), Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2023.
Other sources of interest
- Accipitriformes
- Aegotheliformes
- Anseriformes
- Apodiformes
- Apterygiformes
- Bucerotiformes
- Caprimulgiformes
- Cariamiformes
- Casuariiformes
- Charadriiformes
- Ciconiiformes
- Coliiformes
- Columbiformes
- Coraciiformes
- Cuculiformes
- Eurypygiformes
- Falconiformes
- Galliformes
- Gaviiformes
- Gruiformes
- Leptosomiformes
- Mesitornithiformes
- Musophagiformes
- Nyctibiiformes
- Opisthocomiformes
- Otidiformes
- Passeriformes
- Pelecaniformes
- Phaethontiformes
- Phoenicopteriformes
- Piciformes
- Podargiformes
- Podicipediformes
- Procellariiformes
- Psittaciformes
- Pterocliformes
- Rheiformes
- Sphenisciformes
- Steatornithiformes
- Strigiformes
- Struthioniformes
- Suliformes
- Tinamiformes
- Trogoniformes