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S107, Taking Off
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-berigora.JPG "Eastern Brown Falcon (Falco (Ieracidea) berigora ssp berigora)") | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves) | ||||||||||||||
| Order: | Birds of Prey (Falconiformes) | |||||||||||||||
| Family: | Falcon (Falconidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||||
| Species: | Eastern Brown Falcon (Falco (Ieracidea) berigora ssp berigora)| This Photo: | 🔍S107, Lifting🔎 | Other name: | Australian Brown Falcon | Thank you Ralph Foster, Alan Melville & John Oliver for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere Medium sized bird of prey. The light morph has a buff breast, with thin brown stripes. All morphs have brown back and wings. We have a resident breeding pair of Brown Falcons (mixed morphs) often found perched on the top of a dead tree. They sit there for hours, scanning their surrounds. We have read of studies that the suggest "morphs" are simple age variations (lighter = older). Our photo of a Light Morph juvenile must disprove this? It would be easy to see the dark morph turning into a brown morph. As can be seen by the binomial name, this is the nominate subspecies. Our understanding of age (juvenile -> sub-adult -> adult) is based on the feather patterns. Younger birds have very patch-worked colours. Older birds have heavy streaking on the breast. While Adults have minimal streaking, but it's not very clear cut. So our age classification here is a bit of guesswork. We accidentally disturbed a sub-adult, brown morph (tagged as S107), but managed to get reasonable a sequence of photo's of it taking off and flying away. This sequence shows all aspects of a single specimen (top, under, talons & tail & alula feathers).
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