Aplomado falcon / Aplomadofalke (Falco femoralis)

Wikipedia: Aplomado falcon Source: WIKIPEDIA Aplomado_Falcon_portrait.jpg

Observations

🔍 No documented observation

Description

Classification: Genus Falcons (Falco); Family Falconidae (Falconidae)
General: The aplomado falcon (Falco femoralis) is a medium-sized falcon of the Americas. The species' largest contiguous range is in South America, but not in the deep interior Amazon Basin. It was long known as Falco fusco-coerulescens or Falco fuscocaerulescens, but these names are now believed to refer to the bat falcon (F. rufigularis).^[2] Its resemblance in shape to the hobbies accounts for its old name orange-chested hobby. Aplomado is an unusual Spanish word for "lead-colored", referring to the blue-grey areas of the plumage – an approximate English translation would be "plumbeous falcon". Spanish names for the species include halcón aplomado and halcón fajado (roughly "banded falcon" in reference to the characteristic pattern); in Brazil it is known as falcão-de-coleira. [more]