Showing posts with label Falco sparverius. Show all posts
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Monday, November 2, 2009

Falco severus


The Oriental Hobby (Falco severus) is a species of falcon typically 27-30 cm long.
It can be found in the eastern Himalayas and ranges to southern China, Hainan
and southwards through Indochina to Southern Asia and Australasia.
It has been recorded as a vagrant from Malaysia.

Falcon fly





Falcon fly

Falco sparverius



he American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) is a small falcon.
This bird was (and sometimes still is) colloquially known in North America as the "Sparrow Hawk".
This name is misleading because it implies a connection with the Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus, which is unrelated; the latter is an accipiter rather than a falcon.
Though both are diurnal raptors, they are only distantly related.
source:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/