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English Peregrine Falcon
Scientific (Falco peregrinus anatum)
Order FALCONIFORMES
Family (Latin) Falconidae
Family (English) Caracaras, Falcons
Other name(s)
Breeding Regions Worldwide
Breeding Range Subregions widespread
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Andorra,Angola,Anguilla,Antigua and Barbuda,Argentina,Armenia,Australia, Austria,Azerbaijan,Bahamas,Bahrain,Bangladesh,Barbados,Belarus,Belgium(I),Belize,Benin, Bermuda,Bhutan,Bolivia,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Botswana,Brazil,British Virgin Islands,Bulgaria,Burkina Faso,Burundi, Cambodia,Cameroon,Canada,Cape Verde,Cayman Islands,Central African Republic,Chad,Chile,China,Colombia, Comoros,Congo,Costa Rica,Croatia,Cuba,Cyprus,Czech Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo,Denmark,Djibouti, Dominica,Dominican Republic,Ecuador - Galapagos Islands,Ecuador - mainland,Egypt,El Salvador,Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Estonia,Ethiopia, Finland,France,French Guiana,Gabon,Gambia,Georgia,Germany,Ghana,Gibraltar,Greece, Greenland,Grenada,Guam,Guatemala,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Guyana,Haiti,Honduras,Hong Kong, Hungary,India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands,India - mainland,Indonesia,Iran,Iraq,Ireland,Israel,Italy,Ivory Coast, Jamaica,Japan,Jordan,Kazakhstan,Kenya,Kuwait,Kyrgyzstan,Laos,Latvia,Lebanon, Lesotho,Liberia,Libya,Liechtenstein,Lithuania,Luxembourg,Macao,Macedonia,Madagascar,Malawi, Malaysia,Mali,Malta,Mauritania,Mexico,Moldova,Monaco,Mongolia,Montenegro,Montserrat, Morocco,Mozambique,Myanmar,Namibia,Nepal,Netherlands,Netherlands Antilles,New Caledonia,Nicaragua,Niger, Nigeria,North Korea,Norway,Oman,Pakistan,Palau,Palestine,Panama,Papua New Guinea,Paraguay, Peru,Philippines,Poland,Portugal,Qatar,Romania,Russia,Rwanda,Saint Kitts and Nevis,Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,San Marino,Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Sierra Leone,Singapore,Slovakia,Slovenia,Solomon Islands,Somalia, South Africa,South Korea,South Sudan,Spain,Sri Lanka,Sudan,Suriname,Swaziland,Sweden,Switzerland, Syria,Tajikistan,Tanzania,Thailand,Togo,Trinidad and Tobago,Tunisia,Turkey,Turkmenistan,Uganda, Ukraine,United Arab Emirates,United Kingdom,United States - Alaska,United States - Hawaii,United States - mainland,Uruguay,Uzbekistan,Vanuatu,Venezuela, Vietnam,Virgin Islands,Western Sahara,Yemen,Zambia,Zimbabwe,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
tundrius Alaska to Greenland
babylonicus e Iran to Mongolia and Pakistan
nesiotes Solomon Is., Vanuatu, New Caledonia including Loyalty Is. and Fiji (sw Polynesia)
macropus Australia
ernesti Philippines, Greater Sundas, New Guinea and satellites, and Bismarck Arch.
radama Madagascar and the Comoros
minor Morocco, Mauritania, Africa s of the Sahara
madens Cape Verde Is. (s Macaronesia, w of w Africa)
furuitii Bonin Is. (Japan)
peregrinator Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka to s, e China
brookei Mediterranean region to Caucasus and n Iran
japonensis ne Siberia to Japan
calidus Lapland to ne Siberia
peregrinus n Eurasia (s of tundra)
cassini w South America (Colombia to Tierra del Fuego) and Falkland Is.
anatum North America (s of tundra) to n Mexico
pealei Aleutian Is. to s Alaska and sw Canada
pelegrinoides Canary Is., n Africa to Arabia and sw Iran
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by Tunstall, 1771
German Wanderfalke
French Faucon pèlerin
Chinese 游隼
Japanese ハヤブサ
Russian Сапсан
Spanish Halcón peregrino
Portuguese falcão-peregrino
Bird Data App text A medium-sized falcon believed to be the fastest animal on the planet. Note the black mask. Peregrine means wanderer, and this species is possible almost anywhere.
Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes
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
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
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)