.םיקוצ זב (142






Lanner Falcon
Lanner Falcon
Lanner Falcon




Falco biarmicus
Falco biarmicus
Falco biarmicus


לארשי

.דרדרוה ונוחגו םוחה ובגב ונממ הנושו דדונה זבהמ רתוי ןטק F. b. feldeggii יפוראה ןימה תת :םיקוצ זב
.ךורא ובנזו רצ רוקמה לעמ רוחשה ספה ,בוהצ םוח דעו םיריהב םימוח ףרועהו דוקדוקה
.םימתכ הבורמ וניא םנוחגו טעמ ספסופמ םבג ,רתוי םיריהב ,F. b. erlangeri ו F. b. tanypterus ןוכיתה חרזמהו הקירפא ןופצב םינימה תת
.םיקוצ לע ןנקמ .םירעוימ םירה דע םישביו םיחותפ ,םיירבדמ םירוזאמ ,ןווגמ ולודיג תיב
.רידנ ףרוח רקבמו ןנקמ F. b. feldeggii F. b. tanypterus םינימ תת ינש ץראב
'א ה"צ וירדהנס ... יאזב רוכשל קפנ ...
Subspecies and Distribution.
F. b. feldeggii S Italy and Sicily to Arminia and Azerbijan, S to Lebanon.
F. b. erlangeri N W Africa from Mauritania to Morocco and Tunisia.
F. b. tanypterus N E Africa, Egypt and Sudan to Arabia, Israel and Iraq.
F. b. abyssinicus Senegal and Ghana to Ethiopia and Somalia and to Uganda and Zaire.
F. b. biarmicus Angola, Zaire and Kenya to South Africa.

Descriptive notes.

43 cm,500-900 g wingspan 110 cm.
Chestnut extending to neck and mantle, and underparts barred.
Female larger and often darker than male.
Juvenile brown above, underparts heavily streaked with dark grey, facial skin pale blue , not yellow.
To the N races have underparts finely spotted with black, whereas almost unmarked in S populations. Races also differ in size and intensity of coloration.

Habitat.

Variable, from dry, flat, open desert to wet, often forested mountains, usually with open or lightly wooded hunting areas nearby.

Food and Feeding

Mainly birds, pigeons and quails, completed by bats, rudents lizards, and insects.
Hunts mainly by fast aerial pursuit from a stoop or horizontal chase. Caches prey. Up to 20 birds may gather at prey concentrations, obtains some prey by piracy and sometimes takes carrion.

Breeding.

Feb-May in S Europe and N Africa, Jan-Mar in Sahara, W and N E Africa.
Nests in old structures of crows, herons or other raptors, in tree, electricity pylons or in scrapes on cliffs, sometimes on buildings.
3-4 eggs, incubation 32 days.
Chicks have white first and second down.

Movements.

Resident in areas of more stable climate, extensive movements in Africa indicated by ringing recoveries of up to 1500 km and annual surplus, especially of juveniles and non-breeding adults, in arid areas of E and S W Africa. May move into desert areas after rain, and out of forested areas during mist and heavy rain. Gathers at food concentrations, breeding colonies of Red-billed quelea or emergences of termite alates or locusts.

Status and Conservation.

Not globally threatened. Widespread and generally common in Africa.

Israel.

In Israel two subspecies F. b. tanypterus. Quite rare resident and fairly rare passage migrant, and F. b. feldeggii, Fairly rare passage migrant and winter visitor.

F. b. tanypterus
(in Israel)

F. b. abyssinicus

F. b. biarmicus

F. b. biarmicus

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