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Laughing Falcon
Herpetotheres cachinnans · Family Falconidae
Herpetotheres cachinnans
Family Falconidae
- Order
- Falconiformes
- Family
- Falconidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 238,108
- Countries and territories with records
- 20
About this species
This species has 238,108 occurrence records from 20 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Costa Rica (26.7%), Colombia (16.2%), Mexico (10.9%), Brazil (10.5%) and Belize (8.8%); together they account for 73.2% of the total. In Costa Rica, this species accounts for 0.24% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Herpetotheres cachinnans combines the genus name Herpetotheres with the species epithet cachinnans. It is the only species of the genus Herpetotheres in the Warbla app catalog.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 58 species of the family Falconidae. This species ranks 9th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Falco sparverius. Its record count is 63% of the family average (377,669). The family Falconidae belongs to the order Falconiformes, which has 58 species in the Warbla app catalog.