Saker falcon: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the saker falcon lives – recorded in 21 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Falco cherrug
Group	Birds of prey
Status	Endangered (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	21 countries
Continents	Africa, Asia, Europe
Mass	53 g (birth weight); 875 g (male organism, adult weight); 1.13 kg (female organism, adult weight)
Class	Bird
Order	Falconiformes
Family	Falconidae

Where does the saker falcon live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the saker falcon in 21 countries and territories across Africa, Asia and Europe. Wikidata gives its range as: Africa. In Belgium, Germany, France, Sweden it is listed as introduced (GRIIS checklists via GBIF).

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is a saker falcon?

Wikidata records the following for the saker falcon: mass 53 g (birth weight); 875 g (male organism, adult weight); 1.13 kg (female organism, adult weight).

Is the saker falcon endangered?

The saker falcon’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Endangered” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the saker falcon?

The saker falcon (Falco cherrug) is a bird in the order Falconiformes and the family Falconidae, genus Falco. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the saker falcon

The saker falcon (Falco cherrug) is a large falcon species. It breeds from Central Europe eastwards across the Palearctic to Manchuria. It is a partial migrant, which means that some part of the population is migratory, some part is not. In Europe, for example, a part of the juveniles are migrating, while adults are mostly resident. The European and West Asian migratory sakers spend the winter in the Sahel region. On migration, they cross the Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula, and Pakistan, where they are exposed to illegal trapping. The migratory birds to the east from Altai Mountains spend the winter in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Saker falcon (revision 1377046980), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q165974 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).