Name:Falco subbuteo
Alias:Green stripe, earth falcon, falcon, grasshopper hawk, insect kite
Outline:Bird of prey
Family:Falconiformes Falconidae Falco
length:28-35cm
Weight:120-294g
Life:15~25year
IUCN:LC
The falcon is commonly known as the green-striped hawk, grasshopper hawk, and green-tip hawk. It is smaller than the peregrine falcon and the peregrine falcon. It moves alone or in pairs and mainly hunts in the air. It flies at high speed, is agile, and flexible, like a fighter jet. It can even catch fast-flying swallows and swifts. It also often preys on other passerine birds, bats, dragonflies, crickets, locusts, longhorn beetles, beetles, and other large insects. Most of them are pests.
It mainly hunts in the air and can even catch fast-flying swallows and swifts. Although it is active during the day like other falcons, it hunts most frequently at dusk. It often flies over fields, forest edges and swamps to hunt, and sometimes hunts on the ground.
The breeding season is from May to July. After mating, the male bird often holds food in its mouth and approaches the female bird in a stilt-walking posture, nodding its head continuously while spreading its legs to reveal its inner feathers, and then hands the food to the female bird, completing the bowing ceremony between them. Then the male and female birds fly together in the air, accompanied by their unique monotonous and soft calls.
Call: Repeated sharp call kick.