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Photo by stoop
South-east Queensland, 1999

Falco subniger

[edit] Identification

Females 55cm, males 45cm.

Black Falcon does not show banding in tail or wings, and does not show moustacial stripes in the head (these are all differences from Brown Falcon). Older birds can have some white in the head, but are otherwise black to dark brown.

Photo by Hans&Judy Beste
Cunnamulla, Western Queensland, October 2008

[edit] Distribution

Australia: occurs in the interior of all mainland states, absent from coastal areas of the west, north and east and from Tasmania. Uncommon over most of range.

Resident and nomadic.

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypoic^[1]

[edit] Habitat

Open woodland and forest edge, plains, grasslands and farmland with scattered trees.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes mainly birds which it often takes on the wing, also lizards, quail or rabbits.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.

1. Wikipedia

• List of references

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