Known from the discs' own bird lists
Aplomado Falcon
falco femoralis
Falconidae
- Disc 2 · 2001 listed
- Disc 3 · 2006 listed
- Disc 1 · 2011 listed
The detailed account of this bird below comes from Disc 1 · 2011. The other discs list the bird but carry no account of it, and none is invented here.
From the original Disc 1 · 2011 revision
Detailed account — Disc 1 · 2011
This detailed account first appears in the 2011 Disc 1 revision; the earlier releases have no account for this bird.
Description Disc 1 · 2011
38-43 cm. The adult upperparts are bluish slate; primaries blackish, barred with white on inner webs; secondaries white tipped; tail black, white tipped, with five or six white bands; a prominent buff postocular stripe and nuchal collar; broad black stripe below and behind eye; throat, foreneck and breast buffy white to ochraceous; sides and entire upper abdomen black, very narrowly barred with white; lower abdomen, under tail coverts and tibiae cinnamon; iris yellowish brown to dark hazel; bare orbital area, cere, and feet light yellow; bill yellowish, tipped gray.
The immature is black above with brown feather margins and upper breast heavily streaked with black.
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The disc records this picture against the bird without a caption. Disc 1 · 2011
The account, continued
Voice Disc 1 · 2011
A fast "kekekeke" and single notes, like "keeeh keeeh".
Behavior Disc 1 · 2011
Watches from a perch and persecutes prey by chasing or might pick up mammals etc. from ground during flight. Crepuscular; pirates food from other raptors; attends grass fires.
Breeding Disc 1 · 2011
Breeder.
Habitat and status Disc 1 · 2011
Not uncommon in open country, caatinga, scrub land, marshes, beaches, pastureland.
Distribution Disc 1 · 2011
Throughout.
The Disc 2 · 2001 contains no detailed account for this bird (its 2011 account is shown above). None is invented here.
The Disc 3 · 2006 contains no detailed account for this bird (its 2011 account is shown above). None is invented here.
Vocalizations
Each disc's own recording entries are shown under that disc's label. A player appears only where the recording's file survives on a preserved disc.
Disc 1 · 2011
Recorded by Sjoerd Mayer. Disc 1 · 2011
More images
The disc records this picture against the bird without a caption. Disc 1 · 2011 The disc records this picture against the bird without a caption. Disc 1 · 2011 Photo by Fritz Mueller Disc 1 · 2011
Which discs list this bird
- Disc 2 · 2001 — in this disc's bird list
- Disc 3 · 2006 — in this disc's bird list
- Disc 1 · 2011 — in this disc's bird list
How that was established
- Disc 2 · 2001
aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1- Disc 3 · 2006
aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1- Disc 1 · 2011
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The disc's own record fields that place the bird on its list: a non-empty entry in the species table, and the byte that marks it as selected on a local checklist.
Historical checklist participation
Disc 2 · 2001
Selected on local checklists: CASB.CKD; ITSB.CKD; RERB.CKD; RIRB.CKD; SESB.CKD; SRRB.CKD
Listed on product/edition lists: SEBRAZIL.CKD; SEBZ_D1.CKD
Disc 3 · 2006
Selected on local checklists: CASB.CKD; ITSB.CKD; MRRB.CKD; PARB.CKD; RERB.CKD; RIRB.CKD; SDTC.CKD; SESB.CKD; SRRB.CKD
Listed on product/edition lists: SEBZ_D1.CKD; Sebrazil.ckd
Disc 1 · 2011
Selected on local checklists: CASB.CKD; ITSB.CKD; MRRB.CKD; PARB.CKD; RERB.CKD; RIRB.CKD; SDTC.CKD; SESB.CKD; SRRB.CKD
Listed on product/edition lists: SEBZ_D1.CKD; Sebrazil.ckd