Amur Falcon

How to identify

Field marks

1. Male has dark gray back and rufous thighs and undertail
2. Eye-ring, cere, legs and feet orange-red
3. Male shows white underwing coverts contrasting with dark flight feathers in flight
4. Wingtips reach or extend beyond the tail tip when perched

Male, female and young

The female has a darker back and white underparts with dark scaling; the thighs and tail are only pale rufous.

Similar species

Red-footed Falcon

The male Amur Falcon shows white on the inner underwing in flight; the adult male Red-footed Falcon has dark gray inner underwings.

Where and when it's recorded

Amur Falcon has been recorded at 792 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 38 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Muravyevka ParkRussia421 records
2. Khurkh Bird Ringing Station, Khentii, MNMongolia367 records
3. Baiwangshan Forest ParkChina351 records

Countries and regions with the most records

ChinaSouth AfricaMongoliaRussiaIndiaTanzaniaKenyaSouth Korea

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The Amur falcon (Falco amurensis) is a small raptor of the falcon family. It breeds in south-eastern Siberia and Northern China before migrating in large flocks across India and over the Arabian Sea to winter in Southern and East African coasts.

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