Buckley's Forest Falcon (Micrastur buckleyi) | Calls and ID

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ForestCavity nestLarge · 464 g

What the Buckley's Forest Falcon sounds like

Sonogram of the Buckley's Forest Falcon: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Napo: V.Sumaco: 1 km S "Wild Sumaco Lodge", Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

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Buckley's forest falcon is 41 to 51 cm (16 to 20 in) long. Its wingspan is 61 to 72 cm (24 to 28 in). Adult males have black upperparts with a white collar. Their cheeks, throat, and underparts are white and unmarked. Their tail is black with three narrow white bars on the inner feathers and four on the outer ones. Their iris is dark brown, their cere, lores, and bare skin around the eye are dull greenish, and their legs and feet are yellowish. Adult females are like males with the addition of white spots on their scapulars and secondaries. Voice: The most common Buckley's forest falcon vocalization is "a far-carrying, nasal "eeok, oow" or "eeok, oow...ow", repeated...for long periods, mainly at dawn." It also occasionally makes "a long rising series of "kaw" notes followed by 2-3 falling "aauw" notes".

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When to see the Buckley's Forest Falcon

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is September, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Buckley's Forest Falcon

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 2 countries with regular records, and 2 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Ecuador Peru

Recorded as a rare visitor in Brazil, Colombia.

About the Buckley's Forest Falcon

Buckley's forest falcon, also called lesser collared forest-falcon and Traylor's forest-falcon, is a species of bird of prey in subfamily Herpetotherinae of family Falconidae, the falcons and caracaras. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, and possibly Colombia and Venezuela.

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Easily confused with

Cryptic Forest FalconMicrastur mintoniThe cryptic forest falcon is a rarely spotted bird of prey. Plumbeous Forest FalconMicrastur plumbeusThe adult plumbeous forest-falcon has a grey back and a grey head with very bright orange legs and face.

Slaty-backed Forest FalconMicrastur mirandolleiThe slaty-backed forest falcon is 40 to 45 cm (16 to 18 in) long.

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