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Falco biarmicus (Lanner Falcon)

Infraspecies

Falco biarmicus abyssinicus
Falco biarmicus biarmicus
Falco biarmicus erlangeri
Falco biarmicus feldeggii
Falco biarmicus tanypterus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
12
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.85102
EDGE Score: 1.57919
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.349 lbs (612 g)
Birth Weight [1]  48 grams
Female Weight [4]  1.601 lbs (726 g)
Male Weight [4]  1.116 lbs (506 g)
Weight Dimorphism [4]  43.5 %
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Ectothermic [2]  10 %
Diet - Endothermic [2]  80 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  10 %
Forages - Aerial [2]  10 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  10 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  20 %
Forages - Understory [2]  30 %
Forages - Ground [2]  30 %
Clutch Size [6]  4
Clutches / Year [3]  1
Fledging [3]  41 days
Incubation [5]  32 days
Maximum Longevity [5]  17 years
Raptor Research Conservation Priority [7]  109
Snout to Vent Length [3]  17 inches (44 cm)
Wing Span [5]  39 inches (1 m)
Female Maturity [3]  1 year 12 months

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Consumers

Parasitized by 
Matabelea fuhrmanni <Unverified Name>[11]
Serratospiculum chungi[11]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Storchová, Lenka; Hořák, David (2018), Data from: Life-history characteristics of European birds, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n6k3n
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4Jenkins, AR 1995. Morphometrics and flight performance of southern African Peregrine and Lanner Falcons. Journal of Avian Biology 26:49–58
♦ 5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 6Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 7Buechley ER, Santangeli A, Girardello M, et al. Global raptor research and conservation priorities: Tropical raptors fall prey to knowledge gaps. Divers Distrib. 2019;25:856–869. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12901
♦ 8The diet of the Lanner (Falco biarmicus) in a hyper-arid region of the eastern Sahara, Goodman S. M., Haynes C. V., Journal of arid environments, 1992, vol. 22, no1, pp. 93-98
♦ 9Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 10Rousettus egyptiacus, Gary G. Kwiecinski and Thomas A. Griffiths, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 611, pp. 1-9 (1999)
♦ 11Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0