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
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Falco berigora in Victoria, Australie
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Scientific classification
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Kinrick:
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Animalia
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Phylum:
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Chordata
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Cless:
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Aves
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Faimily:
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Falconidae
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Subfaimily:
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Falconinae
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Genus:
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Falco Linnaeus, 1758
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Speshies
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About 37; see text.
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Synonyms
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- 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)[verification needit]
- Gennaia Kaup, 1847
- Jerafalco Kaup, 1850 (unjuistifee'd emendation)
- Harpe Bonaparte, 1855 (non Lacepède 1802[verification needit]: preoccupied)
- Dissodectes Sclater, 1864
- Genaïe Heuglin, 1867 (unjuistifee'd emendation)[verification needit]
- Harpa Sharpe, 1874 (non Pallas 1774: preoccupied)
- Gennadas Heine & Reichenow, 1890[verification needit] (unjustified emendation)[verification needit]
- 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
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