Prairie Falcon
Falco mexicanusSchlegel, H, 1850
English (US) Prairie Falcon
The Prairie Falcon (Falco mexicanus) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Falconidae (Falcons and Caracaras) in the order Falconiformes.
Range: arid North America (British Columbia to northern Mexico)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Falco mexicanus
- Order
- Falconiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Prairie Falcon
- Described by
- Schlegel, H, 1850
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Schlegel, H, 1850
- Type locality
- Mexico. Type from Monterrey (cf. Schlegel, 1862, Mus. Hist. Nat. Pays-Bas, Rev. Method. Crit. Coll., livr. 1, Falcones, p. 18, note).
- Original description
- Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Zoologie und vergleichenden Anatomie Heft3 p.15
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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