Eleonora's Falcon

Falco eleonorae

Summary 2

Eleonora's falcon (Falco eleonorae) is a medium-sized falcon. It belongs to the hobby group, a rather close-knit number of similar falcons often considered a subgenus Hypotriorchis. The sooty falcon is sometimes considered its closest relative, but while they certainly belong to the same lineage, they do not seem to be close sister species. Eleonora's falcon is named after Eleanor of Arborea, Queen (Juighissa) and national heroine of Sardinia, who granted for the first

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  1. (c) Nabok, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-NC-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/nabok/14890831031/
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Taxonomy:family Falconidae
Taxonomy:class Aves