Red-necked Falcon

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When to see the Red-necked Falcon

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

Where to see the Red-necked Falcon

The map shades 33 countries with regular records, and 4 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.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Mauritania, Burundi, Angola, Sudan.

About the Red-necked Falcon

The red-necked falcon is a bird of prey in the falcon family with two disjunct populations, one in India and the other in Africa. This medium-sized falcon has bluish grey wings and upper body, a chestnut red cap with short chin straps passing through the eye. The primary feathers of the wing are black and a single black band at the tip of the tail are distinctive. The Indian subspecies Falco chicquera chicquera also known as the red-headed merlin or red-headed falcon is found mainly in the open plains of the India Subcontinent although it is thought to have occurred further west in southeastern Iran.

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Easily confused with

Grey KestrelFalco ardosiaceusIt is a fairly small, stocky kestrel with a large, flat-topped head and fairly short wings that don't reach past the tip of the tail when at rest. Black FalconFalco subnigerThe information in this section is based on recent descriptions by several authors (notably, Debus & Davies 2012, Debus & Olsen 2011, Morcombe 2002 and Birds in Backyards n.d.). GyrfalconFalco rusticolusThe gyrfalcon is the largest falcon in the world, being about the same size as the largest buteos but probably slightly heavier.

Side by side: Grey Kestrel vs Red-necked Falcon · Black Falcon vs Red-necked Falcon · Gyrfalcon vs Red-necked Falcon · Pygmy Falcon vs Red-necked Falcon