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Falco cenchroides · Family Falconidae

Falco cenchroides

Family Falconidae

Order
Falconiformes
Family
Falconidae
GBIF occurrence records
422,501
Countries and territories with records
11
Nankeen Kestrel
Jim Bendon from Karratha, Australia · Falco cenchroides 2 (18073596520).jpg · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Jim Bendon from Karratha, Australia · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 422,501 occurrence records from 11 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Australia accounts for 99.4% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In Australia, this species accounts for 0.38% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Falco cenchroides combines the genus name Falco with the species epithet cenchroides. The Warbla app catalog lists 38 species of the genus Falco; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Falco sparverius, Falco tinnunculus and Falco peregrinus.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 58 species of the family Falconidae. This species ranks 7th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Falco sparverius. Its record count is close to the family average (377,669). The family Falconidae belongs to the order Falconiformes, which has 58 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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