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Brown falcon, the Glossary

Index Brown falcon

The brown falcon (Falco berigora) is a relatively large falcon native to Australia and New Guinea.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 14 relations: Audubon (magazine), Australia, Beak, Bird nest, Charles Walter De Vis, Covert feather, Falcon, John Gould, New Guinea, Nicholas Aylward Vigors, Plumage, Rabbit, Species, Thomas Horsfield.

  2. Birds of prey of New Guinea
  3. Falco (genus)
  4. Firehawks

Audubon (magazine)

Audubon is the flagship journal of the National Audubon Society.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Beak

The beak, bill, or rostrum is an external anatomical structure found mostly in birds, but also in turtles, non-avian dinosaurs and a few mammals.

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Bird nest

A bird nest is the spot in which a bird lays and incubates its eggs and raises its young.

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Charles Walter De Vis

Charles Walter de Vis (9 May 1829, Birmingham, England – 30 April 1915, Brisbane, Queensland Australia) — Australian Dictionary of Biography was an English zoologist, ornithologist, — Encyclopedia of Australian science herpetologist,"De Vis".

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Covert feather

A covert feather or tectrix on a bird is one of a set of feathers, called coverts (or tectrices), which cover other feathers.

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Falcon

Falcons are birds of prey in the genus Falco, which includes about 40 species. Some small species of falcons with long, narrow wings are called hobbies, and some that hover while hunting are called kestrels. Falcons are widely distributed on all continents of the world except Antarctica, though closely related raptors did occur there in the Eocene. Brown falcon and falcon are falco (genus).

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John Gould

John Gould (14 September 1804 – 3 February 1881) was an English ornithologist who published monographs on birds, illustrated by plates produced by his wife, Elizabeth Gould, and several other artists, including Edward Lear, Henry Constantine Richter, Joseph Wolf and William Matthew Hart.

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New Guinea

New Guinea (Hiri Motu: Niu Gini; Papua, fossilized Nugini, or historically Irian) is the world's second-largest island, with an area of.

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Nicholas Aylward Vigors

Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785 – 26 October 1840) was an Irish zoologist and politician.

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Plumage

Plumage is a layer of feathers that covers a bird and the pattern, colour, and arrangement of those feathers.

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Rabbit

Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae (which also includes the hares), which is in the order Lagomorpha (which also includes pikas).

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Species

A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

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Thomas Horsfield

Thomas Horsfield (May 12, 1773 – July 24, 1859) was an American physician and naturalist who worked extensively in Indonesia, describing numerous species of plants and animals from the region.

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See also

Birds of prey of New Guinea

Falco (genus)

Firehawks

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_falcon

Also known as Asturaetus furcillatus, Brown Hawk, Falco berigora, Plioaetus furcillatus, The Brown Falcon.