Falco est genus avium familiae Falconidarum . Falconum sunt triginta septem species , per orbem pervulgatae.
Falco berigora
Subdivisiones: Species
Circa 37; vide commentarium.
Synonyma
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Aesalon
Lithofalco
Tinnunculus Linnaeus, 1766
Hierofalco Cuvier , 1817
Cerchneis Boie, 1826
Hypotriorchis Boie, 1826
Rhynchodon Nitzsch, 1829
Ieracidea Gould , 1838
Hieracidea Strickland , 1841 (unjustified emendation)Formula:Verify source
Gennaia Kaup , 1847
Jerafalco Kaup , 1850 (unjustified emendation)
Harpe Bonaparte, 1855 (non Lacepède 1802Formula:Verify source : preoccupied )
Dissodectes Sclater , 1864
Genaïe Heuglin , 1867 (unjustified emendation)Formula:Verify source
Harpa Sharpe , 1874 (non Pallas 1774: preoccupied )
Gennadas Heine & Reichenow , 1890Formula:Verify source (unjustified emendation)Formula:Verify source
Nesierax Oberholser , 1899
Nesihierax Dubois, 1902 (unjustified emendation)
Asturaetus De Vis , 1906 (non Asturaetos Brehm 1855: preoccupied)
Plioaetus Richmond , 1908
Sushkinia Tugarinov, 1935 (non Martynov 1930: preoccupied ) - see below
Falcones adultae habent alas tenues et acuminatas, quibus velociter volare et directionem? mutare possunt. Falcones peregrini observati sunt celeritate 320 km/h volantes; unde velocissimae in orbe terrarum bestiae sunt.
Homines diu falconibus in venatione usi sunt, quae falconaria appellatur.
Falco vespertinus
Falco alopex
Falco amurensis
Falco araeus
Falco ardosiaceus
Falco berigora
Falco biarmicus
Falco cenchroides
Falco cherrug
Falco chicquera
Falco columbarius
Falco concolor
Falco cuvierii
Falco deiroleucus
Falco dickinsoni
Falco eleonorae
Falco fasciinucha
Falco femoralis
Falco hypoleucos
Falco jugger
Falco longipennis
Falco mexicanus
Falco moluccensis
Falco naumanni
Falco newtoni
Falco novaeseelandiae
Falco pelegrinoides
Falco peregrinus
Falco punctatus
Falco rufigularis
Falco rupicoloides
Falco rusticolus
Falco severus
Falco sparverius
Falco subbuteo
Falco subniger
Falco tinnunculus
Falco vespertinus
Falco zoniventris