Orange-breasted Falcon
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| Falco deiroleucus Temminck, 1825 |
The Orange-breasted Falcon (Falco deiroleucus) is a bird of the falcon family.
It is found from southern Mexico to northern Argentina.It's a medium sized bird (average length 35 centimeters). It's a bird predator, with strong talons that enable it to catch prey in flight, and is considered by some - as the German-Brazilian ornithologist Helmut Sick - as filling the ecological niche of the Peregrine Falcon as a breeding species in Tropical America. The Orange-breasted, however, seems to favor more heavily wooded habitats than the Peregrine, therefore the species does not seem to enter in ecological competition with the migratory Peregrine populations wintering in South America.
[edit] References
- BirdLife International (2004). Falco deiroleucus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
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