Showing posts with label Falco hypoleucos. Show all posts
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Sunday, May 22, 2016

GREY FALCON

Photographed near Barkley Homestead, Northern Territory May 2016
779               GREY FALCON            Falco hypoleucos

Australia         (623)

Found in lightly treed inland plains; gibber deserts, sand ridges, pastoral lands, timbered watercourses; seldom in driest deserts. 30-44 cm, span to 90cm. Female larger. Range: resident or nomadic visitor to inland parts of all mainland States, especially in Simpson desert-Strezlecki Track region of NT, SA, w Q and far nw NSW; nw coast of WA from Shark Bay to e Kimberley; ne coast near Townsville (Q) rare to very rare; sedentary, dispersive or part-migratory.





Central-west Queensland, August 2017