Saker Falcon in Flight
Date 30 June 2016
Author Saumitra Newalkar
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SakerFalcon.jpg

The saker falcon (Falco cherrug) is a large species of falcon. This species breeds from eastern Europe eastwards across Asia to Manchuria. It is mainly migratory except in the southernmost parts of its range, wintering in Ethiopia, the Arabian peninsula, northern Pakistan and western China.
Order: Falconiformes
Family: Falconidae
Genus: Falco
Subgenus: Hierofalco
Species: Falco cherrug Gray, 1834
Synonyms:
Falco altaicus (Menzbier, 1891)
Hierofalco altaicus Menzbier, 1891