Plumbeous Forest Falcon
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| Plumbeous Forest Falcon | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Falconiformes |
| Family: | Falconidae |
| Genus: | Micrastur |
| Species: | M. plumbeus |
| Binomial name | |
| Micrastur plumbeus Sclater, 1918 |
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The Plumbeous Forest Falcon (Micrastur plumbeus) is a species of bird of prey in the Falconidae family. It is endemic to humid forests in the Chocó in south-western Colombia and north-western Ecuador. It is generally poorly known and rare. It is threatened by habitat loss, and consequently considered vulneranble by BirdLife International and IUCN. It closely resembles the Lined Forest Falcon from the Amazon, but adults only have a single white tail-band (in addition to a narrow white tail-tip) and the irides are pale brownish-grey.
[edit] References
- BirdLife International 2004. Micrastur plumbeus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 24 July 2007.
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