Plumbeous Forest-Falcon Micrastur plumbeus Scientific name definitions
- VU Vulnerable
- Names (26)
- Monotypic
Text last updated August 6, 2015
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Species names in all available languages
| Language | Common name |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Gryswoudvalk |
| Bulgarian | Еквадорски горски сокол |
| Catalan | falcó selvàtic plumbi |
| Croatian | olovasti sokol |
| Czech | sokolec olovobarvý |
| Dutch | Sclaterbosvalk |
| English | Plumbeous Forest-Falcon |
| English (AVI) | Plumbeous Forest Falcon |
| English (United States) | Plumbeous Forest-Falcon |
| Estonian | väike-metspistrik |
| Finnish | narinonhaukkanen |
| French | Carnifex plombé |
| French (Canada) | Carnifex plombé |
| German | Einbinden-Waldfalke |
| Japanese | ハイイロモリハヤブサ |
| Norwegian | blyskogfalk |
| Polish | trębacz szarogardły |
| Russian | Сизый лесной сокол |
| Serbian | Sivkasti šumski soko |
| Slovak | sokolec pralesný |
| Spanish | Halcón Montés Plomizo |
| Spanish (Ecuador) | Halcón Montés Plomizo |
| Spanish (Spain) | Halcón montés plomizo |
| Swedish | blygrå skogsfalk |
| Turkish | Kurşuni Orman Doğanı |
| Ukrainian | Рарія колумбійська |
Micrastur plumbeus Sclater, 1918
Definitions
- MICRASTUR
- plumbeum / plumbeus
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Introduction
The Plumbeous Forest-Falcon is a forest-falcon endemic to the southern Choco biogeographic region in southwestern Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. At various times this species has alternatively been considered a subspecies of Lined Forest-Falcon (Micrastur gilvicollis) of Amazonia, or its own species, but recent field studies have demonstrated unequivocally that the Plumbeous Forest-Falcon is indeed a good species. These studies based their conclusions heavily on vocalizations, which are especially informative for species limits in this genus. The Plumbeous Forest-Falcon is resident in the interior of humid lowland and foothill forest. Apart from its distribution and plumage characters, this species is very poorly known. Nothing is known of the breeding of this species. Its diet is also almost unknown, apart from a report of a land crab and a lizard found in the stomach of one forest-falcon.
Subspecies
- Year-round
- Migration
- Breeding
- Non-Breeding