Black Falcon
Falco subnigerGray, GR, 1843
English (US) Black Falcon
The Black Falcon (Falco subniger) 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 and eastern Australia (except southern Western Australia, western South Australia, and Tasmania)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Falco subniger
- Order
- Falconiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Black Falcon
- Described by
- Gray, GR, 1843
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Gray, GR, 1843
- Type locality
- Australia? = Victoria, fide Mathews, List Bds. Austr., 1913, p. 112.
- Original description
- The Annals and Magazine of Natural History including Zoology, Botany, and Geology ser.1, vol.11, no.71 p.371
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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