Maps of the birds of the Western Palearctic Region

Falcons

Falco eleonorae
Woods, scrub, cliffs.
Canary Islands and islets along coast from Morocco to Tunisia, and islets in the Mediterranean Sea e to Crete, Cyprus and Cyclades.
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Falco concolor
Stony desert, scrub, rocky islands.
Se Libya, Egypt, n Sudan, Eritrea, Yemen, Israel, Jordan and islands in the Red Sea.
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Falco biarmicus
Open country, savanna, desert.
Locally in lowlands and mts. to 2500 m
From Italy, Sicily, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Greece, incl. islands, (formerly sw Spain), Turkey, Near East, n Iraq, nw Iran, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Arabia; Africa (exc. forested w,c Africa) in Mauritania, Senegambia, Burkina Faso, Niger, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, C. Afr. Rep., Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
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Falco eleonorae

Eleonora's Falcon

Scarce, local

Migrates: Mediterraneo,

Red Sea.

occour: Tunisia, Turkey

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Falco concolor

Sooty Falcon

Scarce, local

Poourly known

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Falco biarmicus

Lanner

Rare

has bred: n.Chad, Syria

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Falco cherrug
Open country, plains, grassland, steppe, riparian woods.
From s Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary and Romania s across c Russia to the upper Yenisei R. to sw Siberia (Altai) and w,n China, nw Mongolia, s to Turkey, n Iraq and Iran.
Includes F. altaicus of c Asia, which may be a color morph of F. cherrug, but has been treated as a species or as a race of F. rusticolus.
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Falco rusticolus
Tundra, open taiga, seacoasts.
Arctic region from Greenland, Iceland and Scandinavia e across n Russia and n Siberia, incl. Bering I., to Chukotski Pen., and s to Koryakland and Kamchatka Pen. From n Alaska, n Yukon, and Banks, Prince Patrick and Ellesmere is., s to c Alaska incl. Aleutians w to Umnak, nw British Columbia, s Yukon, n Mackenzie, s Keewatin, Southampton I., c Quebec and n Labrador.
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Falco peregrinus
Open country, tundra, moors, steppe, seacoast, cliffs, cities. Nearly worldwide, but locally distributed in all areas.
From British Isles and Scandinavia e across n Russia and n Siberia to Chukotski Pen., s to Cape Verde Islands; from n Morocco to Tunisia; Mediterranean region, incl. Cyprus, Balearic and other small islands; Turkey, n Iran, s Russia, s Siberia, Mongolia, China (exc. extreme w), Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, s,e Burma, s China, probably Taiwan, and
Kuril and Volcano islands; Africa in Mauritania, Senegambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Niger, Cameroon, C. Afr. Rep., Sudan, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Zaire, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa; Madagascar and Comoro Is. From E. Indies and Philippines
e through New Guinea and Bismarck Arch. to Loyalty Is., New Caledonia, Fiji and Vanuatu, s to Australia, Tasmania; from n Alaska and n Mackenzie
e across Banks, Victoria, s Melville, Somerset and n Baffin is. to Labrador,
s to Baja Calif., coast of Sonora, sw U.S. (rarely in mts. of New Mexico), Colorado, and s Canada (formerly through e U.S. s to n Alabama and nw Georgia), locally present in ne U.S., some in cities. Southern S. America from Ecuador, Peru, s Chile n to Coquimbo, and Argentina n to Santa Cruz, possibly in Tucumán, s to Tierra del Fuego; Falkland Islands.
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Falco pelegrinoides
Semi-desert, desert, dry steppe, rocky regions.
From Morocco and Mauritania e across Algeria, Tunisia Egypt incl. Sinai Pen., (?) n Somalia, Arabia, Near East, Iraq, probably w Iran, s Russia and Afghanistan to nw Mongolia, w China in w,s Sinkiang and w Pakistan. Vagrant records in several northern subSaharan African countries. Sometimes treated as a race of F. peregrinus (Falco peregrinus pelegrinoides).
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