Falconinae

SubfamilyITIS 823970key itis:823970

Falconinae is a subfamily of falconid birds of prey that includes 44 species in five genera. It includes Microhierax, Polihierax, and Falco.W CalCOFI holds 3 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2000 and 2007.R

3
observations: 3
records: 2000–2007
years: 1
datasets

Photo · Mike Prince from Bangalore, India · CC BY 2.0 · commons

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorer db-query R Python This page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:823970")

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.21, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it not on record

Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Under it 1 taxon

G Falco3

Lineage 10 ranks · Animalia to Falconidae

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Spiziapteryx circumcincta · source
Photo · Mike Prince from Bangalore, India · CC BY 2.0 · commons · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Falconinae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1349123676

Elsewhere Wikidata

Wikidata

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.21

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