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Falco eleonorae

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family
ANIMALIA CHORDATA AVES FALCONIFORMES FALCONIDAE

Scientific Name: Falco eleonorae
Species Authority: Géné, 1839
Common Name/s:
English – Eleonora's Falcon
French – Faucon d'Eléonore

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria: Least Concern ver 3.1
Year Published: 2012
Assessor/s: BirdLife International
Reviewer/s: Butchart, S. & Symes, A.
Contributor/s:
Justification:
This species has a very large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). Despite the fact that the population trend appears to be decreasing, the decline is not believed to be sufficiently rapid to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size may be moderately small to large, but it is not believed to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
History:
2009 – Least Concern
2008 – Least Concern
2004 – Least Concern

Geographic Range [top]

Countries:
Native:
Algeria; Bulgaria; Comoros; Croatia; Cyprus; Egypt; Eritrea; France; Gibraltar; Greece; Israel; Italy; Kenya; Lebanon; Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of; Madagascar; Malawi; Malta; Mayotte; Montenegro; Morocco; Portugal; Serbia (Serbia); Somalia; Spain (Canary Is.); Spain (Canary Is.); Sudan; Syrian Arab Republic; Tanzania, United Republic of; Tunisia; Turkey
Vagrant:
Côte d'Ivoire; Denmark; Djibouti; French Southern Territories (the); Hungary; Jordan; Libya; Mauritania; Mauritius; Mozambique; Poland; Réunion; Rwanda; Seychelles; South Africa; Sweden; United Arab Emirates; United Kingdom; Yemen
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Population [top]

Population: In Europe (which covers >95% of the breeding range), the breeding population is estimated to be 5,900-6,200 breeding pairs, equating to 11,800-12,600 mature individuals or 17,700-18,600 individuals in total (BirdLife International 2004).
Population Trend: Decreasing

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Systems: Terrestrial

Bibliography [top]

BirdLife International. 2004. Birds in Europe: population estimates, trends and conservation status. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.

IUCN. 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2012.1). Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 19 June 2012).
Citation: BirdLife International 2012. Falco eleonorae. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2013.
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