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Rock kestrel
Falco rupicolus · Family Falconidae
Falco rupicolus
Family Falconidae
- Order
- Falconiformes
- Family
- Falconidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 97,171
- Countries and territories with records
- 15
About this species
This species has 97,171 occurrence records from 15 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (89.6%), Namibia (7.8%) and Lesotho (1.2%); together they account for 98.6% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.22% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Falco rupicolus combines the genus name Falco with the species epithet rupicolus. 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 17th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Falco sparverius. Its record count is 25.7% of the family average (377,669). The family Falconidae belongs to the order Falconiformes, which has 58 species in the Warbla app catalog.