![]() ![]() ![]() Most hunting is around dawn or dusk and often continues well past sunset. Feeding īat falcons perch conspicuously on high, open snags, from which they launch aerial attacks on their prey. However, the records in Texas, at high elevation in Bolivia, on Tobago, and on islands off the Yucatán Peninsula, Honduras, and Panama show a pattern of wandering. The bat falcon is apparently mostly sedentary. In elevation it mostly ranges from sea level to about 1,700 m (5,600 ft) with a single record in Bolivia at about 3,250 m (10,700 ft). It favors unbroken mature forest but also occurs at the forest edge, in gallery forest, on wooded savanna, on cleared land with some remaining trees, and even in suburban and urban areas. rufigularis is resident on Trinidad and has been recorded as a vagrant on Tobago. petoensis wandered to Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge in Alamo, Texas, in December 2021, for the only U.S. ophryophanes, central Brazil and adjacent eastern Bolivia, Paraguay, and northeastern ArgentinaĪ juvenile male of subspecies F. rufigularis, Trindad and from eastern Colombia east through Venezuela and the Guianas and south through eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru, northern and eastern Bolivia, southern Brazil, and northern Argentina petoensis, from northern Mexico south through all of Central America and west of the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, and extreme northwestern Peru The subspecies of the bat falcon are found thus: ![]() The three subspecies are similar, differing mainly in the tone of their plumage colors. Juveniles are duller and browner than adults, with a buffier throat, a tawny tinge to the breast's barring, and black bars or spots on the undertail coverts. Their cere and bare skin around the eye are bright yellow, their iris black-brown, and their legs and feet orange-yellow. The underside of their wings is black with fine white bars. Their tail is blackish with thin white or grayish bars and a white or buff tip. Their belly, thighs, and undertail coverts are chestnut-rufous. Their throat, upper breast, and sides of the neck are white to buff, sometimes with some cinnamon the rest of their breast is black with fine white bars. Adults have blue-black head and upperparts with grayish edges on the feathers from the upper back to the uppertail coverts. They have long wings and a longish tail with a square tip. The bat falcon is 23 to 30 cm (9.1 to 12 in) long. Those two appear to be closely related to the aplomado falcon ( F. deiroleucus) share plumage and vocal characteristics and may be sister species. The bat falcon and the orange-breasted falcon ( F. Yet others assign only two subspecies, the nominate F. petrophilus that is usually included in petoensis. ophryophanes are not subspecies but clinal variations in plumage. The bat falcon has these three subspecies: femoralis), are now believed to refer to the present species. The bat falcon was long known as Falco albigularis the names Falco fusco-coerulescens or Falco fuscocaerulescens, long used for the aplomado falcon ( F. It is found in Mexico, Central America, Trinidad, and every mainland South American country except Chile and Uruguay. The bat falcon ( Falco rufigularis) is a bird of prey in the family Falconidae, the falcons and caracaras. ![]()
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