SpeciesFalco (Hierofalco) peregrinus Tunstall, 1771

Peregrine Falcon

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SpeciesFalco (Hierofalco) peregrinus Tunstall, 1771

• Falco peregrinusTunstall, M. 1771.Ornithologia Brittanica; seu, Avium omnium Brittannicarum tam terrestrium, quam aquaticarum catalogus, sermone Latino, Anglico & Gallico redditis; cui subjicitur appendix, aves alienigenas, in Angliam raro adventientes, complectens. London : M. Tunstall. [1].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1912.12.30.77 Skin, Northamptonshire, England.
  Paratype(s) BMNH Skin (Mentioned in Warren (1966)), Northamptonshire, England.

  Type locality references:

  Warren, R.L.M. 1966.Type-specimens of Birds in the British Museum (Natural History).Vol. 1 Non-Passerines. London : British Museum ix 320 pp. [223].

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Distribution References

Common Name References

Anonymous 1969.An Index of Australian Bird Names. Division of WIldlife Research Technical Paper. Canberra : CSIRO Vol. No. 20 pp. 93. [16](Black-cheeked Falcon, Duck Hawk, Pigeon Hawk)

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 1994.The Taxonomy and Species of Birds of Australia and its Territories.Monograph 2. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union iv 112 pp.(Peregrine Falcon)

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008.Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [22](Peregrine Falcon)

History of changes