Rock Kestrel
Falco rupicolusDaudin, FM, 1800
English (US) Rock Kestrel
The Rock Kestrel (Falco rupicolus) 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: northern Angola to southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Tanzania, and South AfricaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Falco rupicolus
- Order
- Falconiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Not Evaluated
- English (US)
- Rock Kestrel
- Described by
- Daudin, FM, 1800
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Daudin, FM, 1800
- Type locality
- Cape of Good Hope.
- Original description
- Traité élémentaire et complet d'ornithologie 2 p.135
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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