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Falco rusticolus Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 159154

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Falconiformes (Order) > Falconidae (Family) > Falco (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Falco Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details]

basis of record: Banks, R.C., R.W. McDiarmid, and A.L. Gardner. 1987. Checklist of vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Publication No. 166. 79 p. [details]

basis of record: Field Guide to Birds of North America 1983 [details]

basis of record: Peterson, R.T. and V.M. Peterson. 2002. A field guide to the birds of eastern and central North America. Fifth Edition. Peterson Field Guide Series. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York. 427 p.  [details]

basis of record: Squires, H.J. 1990. Decapod Crustacea of the Atlantic coast of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 221. 532 p. [details]

basis of record: Vanner, M. 2003. The encyclopedia of North American birds. Paragon Publishing. Bath. 383 p. [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Danish jagtfalk  [details]
Dutch giervalk  [details]
English gyr falcon  [details]
English gyrfalcon  [details]
French faucon gerfaut  [details]
German Gerfalke  [details]
Hebrew בז  [details]
Italian girfalco  [details]
Italian girifalco  [details]
Lithuanian medžioklinis sakalas  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Γυρογέρακο  [details]
Norwegian jaktfalk  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål jaktfalk  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk jaktfalk  [details]
Polish białozór  [details]
Russian кречет  [details]
Slovenian arktični sokol  [details]
Spanish halcón gerifalte  [details]
Swedish jaktfalk  [details]
Turkish ak sungur  [details]
Ukrainian Кречет  [details]
Welsh hebog y gogledd  [details]
Environment marine, brackish
Distribution Gulf of Maine [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (327 publications)
To GenBank (63 nucleotides; 37 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Dimensions: Length: 20-25" (51-64 cm); Wingspan: 50-64" (127-163 cm) [details]

Distribution: North America; Labrador [details]

Reproduction: Breeds rarely across extreme northern Canada and the arctic islands to Alaska,and in Eurasia from Iceland to eastern Siberia. Winters southwards to southern Canada and rarely to the northern United States, and also to France, Germany, southern Siberia, and Japan. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159154
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-27 09:47:05Z  created  Appeltans, Ward
2011-04-08 06:18:06Z  checked  Adriaens, Peter
  
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  Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Falco rusticolus Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159154 on 2013-05-19
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