Falcon kobez

The Faucon kobez ( Falco vespertinus ) is a bird of prey of the family of the Faucon S ( Falconidae ).

Description

Kobez is a falcon of small size but equipped with long wings. The adult male is entirely blue-gray except for the lower part of the tail and the legs which are red. The female is gray on the back and the wings, orange on the head and the parts ventral, its face is white with a black band on the eyes and of the moustache.

The young people are of color brown on the top and reddish on the lower part with marks dark and a face beginning again of the reasons identical to those of the female. The falcon kobez measurement from 28 to 34 cm with a scale from 65 to 75 cm.

Distribution and habitat

The falcon kobez meets in Europe Is and Asia. It is migrating which winters in Africa. One rather frequently finds individuals mislaid as far as Western Europe and, in August 2004, a falcon kobez was observed, for the first time, in North America] on the island Martha's Vineyard in the State of the Massachusetts.

It is about a diurnal species which appreciates the open countryside with some trees, not far from water.

Food mode

Its method of typical hunting resembles that of the Faucon kestrel, it is stabilized in flight, scanning the ground, then by small stages plunges towards its prey. It nourishes primarily large insects but also of small mammals and birds.

Reproduction

This falcon reproduces in colony, re-using of old nests of corvidés, like those of the Rook. The laying comprises from 2 to 4 eggs.

External bonds

Be-X-old: Шулёнак

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