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.זע םודא עבצב וילגרו ןיעה תעבט ,ורוקמ .םיינומרע ותשו וילגר ,ההכ רופא רכזה :ברע זב .רגבתמה םיצעה זבל המוד רגבתמה .תומודא הילגר ,היכרי לע רסחהו הדוקדוקו הפרוע לעש הדולחה עבצב םיצעה זבמ תלדבנ הבקנה .שולגלו דחא םוקמב ףרפרל הברמ .תונווסו תוברע ,םיצע טעמ םע םיחותפ םיחטש ולודיג תיב .יוצמ חרוא רבוע ץראב 'א ה"צ ןירדהנס ... יאזב רוכשל קפנ ... | ||||||||||
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Subspecies and Distribution.
Falco vespertinus E Europe from Estonia and Hungary, through NC Asia to China. Winters in Africa from Angola, Namibia to South Africa, through Botswana to Zimbabwe and Zambia. | ||||||||||
Descriptive notes.30 cm, 130-200 g wingspan 65-75 cm.Mostly grey, contrasting with chestnut lower belly, undertail coverts and thighs. Legs, cere and eye-ring red. Female very different, with rusty orange underparts, upperparts and tail blue grey with black transversal bands. Head pale with rusty crown and blackish eye patch and slight moustache, bare parts orange. Male differs from that of F. amurensis by grey underwing coverts, paler crown and mantle, and darker tail and underparts. Female quite different from that of F. amurensis. Juvenile similar to that of F. subbuteo, but different build. Habitat.Usually open areas with some tree cover. Steppe, wooded steppe, cultivation and pastures and riparian woodland.In African winter quarters, affects grassland, savanna and scrubland, rossting colonially in groves of eucalypts and in villages and towns. Food and FeedingMainly insects, grasshoppers, crickets and locusts, also variety of invertebret, mice, shrews, voles lizards and fledglings of small birds.Most active around dawn and dusk. Hunts with fairly low flight often over rivers, capturing insects. Uses hovering flight to detect prey on ground. Breeding.May, solitary or colonial.Occupies old nests of corvids or raptors, usually in upper part of tree sometimes in cliffs or tree holes. 3-4 eggs, incubation 27 days, by both adults. Male brings food for chicks, as does female in later stages. Chicks have firs down white and second down greyis white. Sexual maturity in ferst year. Movements.Migratory, travelling great distances between Palearctic breeding areas and S African winter quarters.Migrates over broad fronts across Mediterranean (up t0 5700 birds couted in autumn in Israel). Stays in winter quarters mainly between Nov and late Feb, reaches breeding areas from mid Apr-May most birds leaving in Sep. Status and Conservation.Not globally threatened. Marked decline, particularly in S of breeding range, probably due, to pesticide use.Israel.In Israel subspecies Falco vespertinus. Fairly common autumn passage migrant over northern and western parts. |
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