#1202 · 🐦 birds

Eleonora's Falcon

🇳🇱 Eleonora's Valk ·Falco eleonorae

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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what is it?

Eleonora's falcon ( Falco eleonorae ) is a medium-sized falcon. It belongs to the hobby group, a rather close-knit number of similar falcons often considered a subgenus Hypotriorchis . The sooty falcon is sometimes considered its closest relative, but while they certainly belong to the same lineage, they do not seem to be close sister species. Eleonora's falcon is named after Eleanor of Arborea, Queen ( Juighissa ) and national heroine of Sardinia, who granted for the first time in history...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,562iNaturalist observations
weight 388 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
1,562 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 388 g.
Scientifically named by Giuseppe Gené in 1839 (187 years ago).