- Falco amurensis
Identification
28-30 cm (11-11¾ in), mass 97-188 g; females larger than males. cere, eye-ring and legs are red.
Male - slate grey, with a chestnut vent and white underwing coverts.
Female - grey on the top of the head, upperparts grey, underparts whitish, streaked and chevroned with black on upper breast and barred black on the lower belly.
Juvenile - similar to adult female but with rufous edging to feathers of upperparts.
Similar Species
Distribution
South-eastern Siberia and northern China, wintering in southern Africa.
Taxonomy
Amur Falcon has in the past been treated as conspecific with Red-footed Falcon.
Habitat
In breeding range: Woodland, forest, woodland margins and marshes, prefers mature trees. Winters in savanna and in grasslands with clumps of trees.
Behaviour
Diet
The diet includes insects, small birds and sometimes amphibians. It hunts from a perch and captures much of its prey on the wing; may hover.
Breeding
It nests in a hole in a tree or uses old corvid nests; 3-4 eggs are laid in May–June; the incubation period is about 28–30 days; the young fledge after about one month.
Reference
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2016. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2016, with updates to August 2016. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Hockey, PAR, WRJ Dean, and PG Ryan, eds. 2005. Roberts' Birds of Southern Africa. 7th ed. Cape Town: John Voelcker Bird Book Fund. ISBN 978-0620340533
- Birdforum thread discussing id features of immature male Amur Falcon compared to Red-footed Falcon
- Answers.com
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Amur Falcon. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 3 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Amur_Falcon
Gallery
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Juvenile
Photo by Nolan.Hwang
Tainan, Taiwan, 2010
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