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Species
Least ConcernAplomado Falcon
species
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- falcon
- Mass
- 407
- Image
- Falcão De Coleira Aplomado Falcon Falco Femoralis (45602460).jpeg
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- short name
- F. femoralis
- taxon common name
- šareni sokol
- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Falco femoralis
- Commons category
- Falco femoralis
- Commons gallery
- Falco femoralis
- litter size
- 2.4
- taxon range
- South America
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Encyclopedic overview
The aplomado falcon (Falco femoralis) is a medium-sized falcon of the Americas. The species' largest continuous range is in South America, but not in the deep interior Amazon Basin. It was long known as Falco fusco-coerulescens or Falco fuscocaerulescens, but these names are now believed to refer to the bat falcon (F. rufigularis). Its resemblance in shape to the hobbies accounts for its old name orange-chested hobby. Aplomado is an unusual Spanish word for "lead-colored", referring to the blue-grey areas of the plumage; an approximate English translation would be "plumbeous falcon". Spanish names for the species include halcón aplomado and halcón fajado (roughly "banded falcon", in reference to the characteristic pattern); in Brazil it is known as falcão-de-coleira (roughly "collared falcon", in reference to the white throat).
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aplomado Falcon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.