Lanner Falcon
Large and powerful...mainly takes its
birds of prey in flight...breeds in Africa,
southeast Europe and just into Asia.
Falco biarmicus
(L 15-18" WS 37.4-41.3")
Road from Kakamega
to Lake Bogoria
28Oct2014
Hey, what’s this bird, this falcon, that
everybody’s all steamed up about?
(Humphrey Bogart)
© Macaulay
Library
Falco is Latin for curved blade
or sickle; biarmicus in Latin
posibly means
bearded.
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