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User Albums Favorites www.BirdPhotos.com User Albums Mohd Khorshed Peregrine Falcon Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)   Immature   Range: Worldwide (range map) info Photo by Mohd Khorshed    - Kuwait  Sizes: 800x534 1024x683 histogram Full size: 1024x683 Barbary Falcon. 5th record for kuwait by rashed. first previous  (Mountain Chiffchaff) Copyright and usage info:  © Copyright All rights reserved by kuwait birds watching (M Additional Information English Peregrine Falcon Scientific (Falco peregrinus) 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) first previous  (Mountain Chiffchaff)