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Eurasian Hobby
Falco subbuteo
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About the Eurasian Hobby
The Eurasian hobby (Falco subbuteo), or just hobby, is a small, slim falcon. It belongs to a group of similar falcons often considered a subgenus of Falco.
Source: Wikipedia
Classification
- Scientific name
- Falco subbuteo
- Family
- Falcons and Caracaras
- Order
- Falconiformes
Similar species
Other members of the falcons and caracaras family recorded in North America — a useful place to start if you are not certain of your identification.
- American Kestrel Falco sparverius
- Aplomado Falcon Falco femoralis
- Barred Forest-Falcon Micrastur ruficollis
- Bat Falcon Falco rufigularis
- Collared Forest-Falcon Micrastur semitorquatus
- Crested Caracara Caracara plancus
- Eurasian Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- Guadalupe Caracara Caracara lutosa
- Gyrfalcon Falco rusticolus
- Lanner Falcon Falco biarmicus
- Laughing Falcon Herpetotheres cachinnans
- Merlin Falco columbarius
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