IUCN and region codes at bottom of page.
Order Species |
Family |
Scientific name |
Breeding subregions |
Nonbreeding subregions |
- FALCONIFORMES |
African Hobby i | Falconidae | Falco cuvierii | AF | widespread s of the Sahara |
American Kestrel i | Falconidae | Falco sparverius | NA, MA, SA | widespread |
Amur Falcon i | Falconidae | Falco amurensis | PAL | e Siberia, Korean Pen. and ne China |
Aplomado Falcon i | Falconidae | Falco femoralis | MA, SA | widespread |
Australian Hobby i | Falconidae | Falco longipennis | AU | Lesser Sundas and Australia |
Banded Kestrel i | Falconidae | Falco zoniventris | AF | Madagascar (except se) |
Bat Falcon i | Falconidae | Falco rufigularis | MA, SA | n Mexico to ne Argentina |
Black Falcon i U | Falconidae | Falco subniger | AU | Australia (except Tasmania) |
Brown Falcon i | Falconidae | Falco berigora | AU | Australia, wc to se New Guinea and islands w of New Britain (se Bismarck Arch.) |
Common Kestrel i | Falconidae | Falco tinnunculus | PAL, AF | widespread |
Dickinson's Kestrel i | Falconidae | Falco dickinsoni | AF | Angola and Namibia to c Kenya and n Mozambique |
Eleonora's Falcon i | Falconidae | Falco eleonorae | PAL | s Europe and n AF |
Eurasian Hobby i | Falconidae | Falco subbuteo | PAL | widespread |
Fox Kestrel i | Falconidae | Falco alopex | AF | Mauritania, Senegal and Gambia to Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya |
Greater Kestrel i | Falconidae | Falco rupicoloides | AF | e, s |
Grey Falcon (VU) i | Falconidae | Falco hypoleucos | AU | inland Australia |
Grey Kestrel i | Falconidae | Falco ardosiaceus | AF | Senegal and Gambia to Ethiopia s to Tanzania and west to Angola and Namibia |
Gyrfalcon i | Falconidae | Falco rusticolus | NA, PAL | Arctic Europe, Asia and North America |
Laggar Falcon (NT) i | Falconidae | Falco jugger | OR | Pakistan through India to c Myanmar |
Lanner Falcon i | Falconidae | Falco biarmicus | PAL, AF | s Europe, Arabian Pen. and widespread AF |
Lesser Kestrel i | Falconidae | Falco naumanni | PAL | s Europe and nw Africa to n China |
Malagasy Kestrel i | Falconidae | Falco newtoni | AF | Madagascar and Aldabra (sw Seychelles) |
Mauritius Kestrel (EN) i | Falconidae | Falco punctatus | IO | Mauritius (c Mascarenes) |
Merlin i | Falconidae | Falco columbarius | NA, PAL | widespread |
Nankeen Kestrel i | Falconidae | Falco cenchroides | AU | wc New Guinean mts., Australia and Tasmania, Lord Howe and Norfolk is. (e of Australia) |
New Zealand Falcon i | Falconidae | Falco novaeseelandiae | AU | North, South, Stewart and Chatham is. (e of South I.; New Zealand) |
Orange-breasted Falcon (NT) i | Falconidae | Falco deiroleucus | MA, SA | s Mexico to ne Argentina |
Oriental Hobby i | Falconidae | Falco severus | OR, AU | Himalayas of nw India to e China, se Asia, Philippines, Java and Bali, Sulawesi region to New Guinea and some satellites, Bismarck Arch. and Solomon Is. |
Peregrine Falcon i | Falconidae | Falco peregrinus | Worldwide | widespread |
Prairie Falcon i | Falconidae | Falco mexicanus | NA, MA | sc Canada to sc USA |
Red-footed Falcon (VU) i | Falconidae | Falco vespertinus | PAL | c Europe to c Asia |
Red-necked Falcon (NT) i | Falconidae | Falco chicquera | AF, OR | c, w, s AF and India |
Reunion Kestrel (EX) i | Falconidae | Falco duboisi | IO | Réunion (w Mascarenes) |
Rock Kestrel i | Falconidae | Falco rupicolus | AF | Angola to s Tanzania s to South Africa |
Saker Falcon (EN) i | Falconidae | Falco cherrug | PAL | c Europe to c Asia, s Siberia, n China, Himalayas and Tibet |
Seychelles Kestrel (VU) i | Falconidae | Falco araeus | AF | North, Silhouette, Mahé, Praslin and some satellites (Inner Is., ne Seychelles) |
Sooty Falcon (VU) i | Falconidae | Falco concolor | AF, PAL | e Libya to sw Pakistan |
Spotted Kestrel i | Falconidae | Falco moluccensis | OR, AU | s Philippines, Java and Bali, Sulawesi, Moluccas and Lesser Sundas |
Taita Falcon (VU) i U | Falconidae | Falco fasciinucha | AF | s Ethiopia to n South Africa |
76% 29 species of 39 (1 extinct).
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IUCN Status Codes |
EX | Extinct |
EW | Extinct in the wild |
CR | Critically Endangered |
EN | Endangered |
VU | Vulnerable |
NT | Near Threatened |
LC | Least Concern |
DD | Data deficient |
NE | Not evaluated |
LC not shown.
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Breeding Range Codes |
AF | Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara) |
AN | Antarctica |
AO | Atlantic Ocean |
AU | Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu) |
PAL | Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan) |
IO | Indian Ocean |
LA | Latin America (Middle and South America) |
MA | Middle America (Mexico through Panama) |
NA | North America (includes the Caribbean) |
NO | Northern oceans |
OR | Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas) |
PO | Pacific Ocean |
SA | South America |
SO | Southern oceans |
TO | Temperate oceans |
TrO | Tropical oceans |
Worldwide | Worldwide |
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