Buckley’s Forest-Falcon (Micrastur buckleyi)

Identification & Behavior: ~43.5 cm (17.1 in). The adult Buckley’s Forest Falcon has a dusky top of the head and back. The underparts and sides of the neck and face are white with dusky sideburns. It has a complete collar around the back of the neck. The juvenile has buffy to pale underparts with variable density of dusky barring or scaling. The Buckley’s Forest-Falcon is a small version of the more common and widespread Collared Forest-Falcon. Also see Slaty-backed Forest-Falcon, which lacks the pale sides of the neck and face and the dusky sideburns.

Status: The Buckley’s Forest-Falcon is poorly known and rare in Amazonia, where it is known to range up to 1350 m along the foothill of the eastern Andes. It also occurs in Co, Ec, and Br.

Name in Spanish: Halcón-Montés de Buckley.

Sub-species: Buckley’s Forest-Falcon (Micrastur buckleyi), Swann 1919.

Meaning of Name: Micrastur: Gr. mikros= small and astur= hawk, goshawk. buckleyi: In tribute to American entomologist and collector of species in Bolivia in 1874 and Ecuador in 1878, Col. Charles Buckley (1878).

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