Faucon

A faucon is a bird o prey in the faimily Falco. The wird falco comes frae the Latin falx ("heuk") acause o the shape o thir birds' weengs.

Faucon Temporal range: Late Miocene to present.
Falco berigora in Victoria, Australie
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Cless:	Aves
Faimily:	Falconidae
Subfaimily:	Falconinae
Genus:	Falco Linnaeus, 1758
Speshies
About 37; see text.
Synonyms
Aesalon Lithofalco Tinnunculus Linnaeus, 1766 Hierofalco Cuvier, 1817 Cerchneis Boie, 1826 Hypotriorchis Boie, 1826 Rhynchodon Nitzsch, 1829 Ieracidea Gould, 1838 Hieracidea Strickland, 1841 (unjuistifee'd emendation) Gennaia Kaup, 1847 Jerafalco Kaup, 1850 (unjuistifee'd emendation) Harpe Bonaparte, 1855 (non Lacepède 1802: preoccupied) Dissodectes Sclater, 1864 Genaïe Heuglin, 1867 (unjuistifee'd emendation) Harpa Sharpe, 1874 (non Pallas 1774: preoccupied) Gennadas Heine & Reichenow, 1890 (unjustified emendation) Nesierax Oberholser, 1899 Nesihierax Dubois, 1902 (unjustified emendation) Asturaetus De Vis, 1906 (non Asturaetos Brehm 1855: preoccupied) Plioaetus Richmond, 1908 Sushkinia Tugarinov, 1935 (non Martynov 1930: preoccupied) – see below