Red-footed Falcon

Falco vespertinus Linnaeus, 1766

Red-footed Falcon Falco vespertinus breeds from central Europe across to central Asia and winters in southern Africa. It is a falcon in the family Falconidae, first described by Linnaeus in 1766. The species is a colonial breeder and uses old corvid nests rather than making its own. It lays two to four eggs. In Europe it is centred on countries such as Hungary, Romania and Serbia, with smaller breeding populations farther west and east, and it is also a regular wanderer to western Europe.

Order

Falconiformes

Family

Falconidae — Caracaras, Falcons

Breeding range

Palearctic: c Europe to c Asia

Nonbreeding range

s AF