what is falcon? its a bird or animal?

Question

i just wondering now about ppl... wt yu think about falcon and what u want to make ani-comment??

Answer 1

It is a bird of prey in the animal kingdom. Me smart.

Answer 2

Bird

Answer 3

Impressive wizard. However, just one minor point a Tiercel is a male PEREGRINE falcon. a male lanner falcon is a Lannerette and a male Saker falcon is a Sakret. a male merlin is a Jack, a male Hobby is a Robin, and a male sparrowhawk is a musket. A male gos hawk is also known as a Tiercel.

Answer 4

Its both, a bird, a reptile, a mammal, thier all animals. A falcon is a bird because of its wings and beak.

Answer 5

Falcon is a brave bird with sharp eyes flying higher higher higher up the sky. "Do u have falcon's spirit?" is used to say to inspire peoples

Answer 6

It's an animal, and the class of animal it is, is a bird.

Answer 7

Falcon
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For other meanings, see falcon (disambiguation).
"Tiercel" redirects here: for other meanings, see tercel.

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Falcons
Yeti, a hybrid white gyrfalcon × saker falcon
Yeti, a hybrid white gyrfalcon × saker falcon
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Falconiformes
Family: Falconidae
Genus: Falco
Linnaeus, 1758
Species

About 37; see text.

A Falcon is any of several species of raptors in the genus Falco. The word comes from Latin falco, related to Latin falx ("sickle") because of the shape of these birds' wings.
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* 1 Overview
* 2 Systematics and evolution
* 3 Species in taxonomic order
* 4 References
o 4.1 Footnotes
* 5 External links

[edit] Overview

Adult falcons have thin tapered wings, which enable them to fly at high speed and to change direction rapidly. Younger falcons, in their first year of flying, have longer flight feathers which makes their configuration more like that of a general-purpose bird such as a broadwing. This is to make it easier for them to fly while learning the exceptional skills required to be effective hunters in their adult configuration.

Peregrine Falcons are the fastest-moving creatures on Earth. Other falcons include the Gyrfalcon, Lanner Falcon, and the Merlin. Some small insectivorous falcons with long narrow wings are called hobbies, and some which hover while hunting for small rodents are called kestrels. The falcons are part of the family Falconidae, which also includes the caracaras, Laughing Falcon, forest falcons, and falconets.

The traditional term for a male falcon is tercel (UK spelling) or tiercel (US spelling), from Latin tertius = third because of the belief that only one in three eggs hatched a male bird.[1] [2] Some sources give the etymology as deriving from the fact that a male falcon is approximately one third smaller than the female.

A falcon chick, especially one reared for falconry, that is still in its downy stage is known as an eyas[3][4] (sometimes spelt eyass). The word arose by mistaken division of Old French un niais, from Latin presumed *nidiscus ("nestling", from nidus = nest).

The technique of hunting with trained captive birds of prey is known as falconry.

In February 2005 the Canadian scientist Dr Louis Lefebvre announced a method of measuring avian intelligence in terms of their innovation in feeding habits. Falcons were named among the most intelligent birds based on this scale[citation needed].

[edit] Systematics and evolution

Compared to other birds of prey, the fossil record of the falcons is not well distributed in time. The oldest fossils tentatively assigned to this genus are from the Late Miocene, less than 10 million years ago. This coincides with a period in which many modern genera of birds became recognizable in the fossil record. The falcon lineage - probably of North American or European, possibly of African origin, given the distribution of fossil Falconidae is likely to be somewhat older however.

Falcons are roughly divisible into three groups. The first contains the kestrels (probably excepting the American Kestrel: Groombridge et al. 2002); usually small and stocky falcons of mainly brown upperside color and sometimes sexually dimorphic; three African species that are mainly grey in color stand apart from the typical members of this group. Kestrels feed chiefly on terrestrial vertebrates and invertebrates of appropriate size, such as rodents, reptiles, or insects.

The second group contains slightly larger (on average) and more elegant species, the hobbies and relatives. These birds are characterized by considerable amounts of dark slaty grey in their plumage; the malar area is nearly always black. They feed mainly on smaller birds.

Last are the Peregrine Falcon and its relatives: powerful birds, often the size of small hawks, they also have a black malar area (except some very light color morphs), and often a black cap also. Otherwise, they are somewhat intermediate between the other groups, being chiefly medium grey with some lighter or brownish colours on the upper side. They are on average more delicately patterned than the hobbies, and as opposed to the other groups, where tail colour is not indicative of evolutionary relationships[1]

The tails of the large falcons are quite uniformly dark grey with rather inconspicuous black banding and small white tips. These largest Falco feed on mid-sized birds and terrestrial vertebrates, taking prey of up to 5-pound sage grouse size.

While these three groups, loosely circumscribed, are an informal arrangement, they are probably contain several distinct clades in their entirety. A study of mtDNA cytochrome b sequence data of some kestrels (Groombridge et al. 2002) identified a clade containing the Common Kestrel and related "malar-striped" species, to the exclusion of such taxa as the Greater Kestrel (which lacks a malar strike), the Lesser Kestrel (which is very similar to the Common but also has no malar stripe), and the American Kestrel. The latter species has a malar stripe, but its color pattern - apart from the brownish back - and notably also the black feathers behind the ear, which never occur in the true kestrels, are more reminiscent of some hobbies. The malar-striped kestrels apparently split from their relatives in the Gelasian, roughly 2.5-2 mya, and are apparently of tropical East African origin. The main kestrel radiation - except American and possibly the African grey kestrels - approximately took place at some time during the Late Miocene to Early Pliocene (approx. Messinian to Zanclean, 7-3.5 mya), and the true kestrels as a whole are apparently of African origin too. See Groombridge et al. (2002) for a thorough discussion of these proposed divergence times.

Answer 8

All creatures are animals.
Insects, birds, mammals, fish, lizards, and yes humans.
Each animal has it's own category.

Answer 9

i think falcon is a kind of eagle.. because many fighter jets are named as falcon...

Answer 10

it is called the BIRD of prey