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Falconidae Leach 1820

Description

Falconidae

Falco tinnunculus (VAG): occurs in Europe, Africa and Asia (Orta, 1994). Only one individual was recorded in the Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago in Brazil, which was the first record for Brazil and for South America and the third one for the New World (Bencke et al., 2005).

Falco columbarius (VAG):breeds in the Arctic and migrates to lower latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere during boreal winter (White et al., 1994). In Brazil, there are few records of this species and all for the North region (Grantsau, 2010) in Jaú National Park/AM (Borges et al., 2001) and in Roraima (RR), PA, Tocantins (TO) and AC (WikiAves, 2016).

Falco aesalon (VAG): occurs in northern Eurasia from Faroe Islands east to central Siberia. When migrating, it moves south to the Mediterranean, northern Africa, Persian Gulf, Iraq, Iran, China, Japan and Korea, and there also recent documented records for Bangladesh (White et al., 2016). The first and only known record for South America is of a female captured on a ship on the coast of BA in 1963 (Baars-Klinkenberg & Wattel, 1964).

Notes

Published as part of Somenzari, Marina, Amaral, Priscilla Prudente do, Cueto, Víctor R., Guaraldo, André de Camargo, Jahn, Alex E., Lima, Diego Mendes, Lima, Pedro Cerqueira, Lugarini, Camile, Machado, Caio Graco, Martinez, Jaime, Nascimento, João Luiz Xavier do, Pacheco, José Fernando, Paludo, Danielle, Prestes, Nêmora Pauletti, Serafini, Patrícia Pereira, Silveira, Luís Fábio, Sousa, Antônio Emanuel Barreto Alves de, Sousa, Nathália Alves de, Souza, Manuella Andrade de, Telino-Júnior, Wallace Rodrigues & Whitney, Bret Myers, 2018, An overview of migratory birds in Brazil, pp. 1-66 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 58 on page 40, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2018.58.03, http://zenodo.org/record/5234679

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References

  • Orta, J. 1994. Falco tinnunculus. In: del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A. & Sargatal, J. (Eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 2: New World Vultures to Guineafowl. Barcelona, Lynx Edicions. p. 259.
  • Bencke, G. A.; Ott, P.; Moreno, I.; Tavares, M. & Caon, G. 2005. Old World birds new to the Brazilian territory recorded in the Archipelago of Sao Pedro and Sao Paulo, equatorial Atlantic Ocean. Ararajuba, 13 (1): 126 - 129.
  • White, C. M.; Olson, P. D. & Kiff, L. F. 1994. Family Falconidae (falcons and caracaras). In: del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A. & Sargatal, J. (Eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 2: New World Vultures to Guineafowl. Barcelona, Lynx Edicions. p. 206 - 275.
  • Grantsau, R. K. H. 2010. Guia completo para a identificacao das aves do Brasil. Sao Paulo, Vento Verde.
  • Borges, S. H.; Cohn-Haft, M.; Carvalhaes, A. M. P.; Henriques, L. M.; Pacheco, J. F. & Whittaker, A. 2001. Birds of the Jau National Park, Brazilian Amazon: species check-list, biogeography and conservation. Ornitologia Neotropical, 12 (2): 109 - 140.
  • White, C. M. & Marks, J. S. 2016. Mississippi Kite (Ictinia mississippiensis). In: del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D. A. & de Juana, E. (Eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Barcelona, Lynx Edicions. Available at: www. hbw. com / node / 52975. Access in: 22 / 09 / 2016.
  • Baars-Klinkenberg, G. & Wattel, J. 1964. Merlin (Falco columbarius) from Bahia, Brazil. Ardea, 52 (3 - 4): 225 - 226.