Adult male © Tom Heijnen eBird S64962337 Macaulay Library ML 204150991
Adult female © Miguel Rouco
Juvenile © Nils-Olof Jerling
Adult male © Phillip Edwards
Adult female © Pavel Štěpánek
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Juvenile © Johan Mellquist
Immature male © Lars Petersson | My World of Bird Photography
Juvenile © Lasse Olsson

Roodpootvalk Falco vespertinus

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Identification

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Long-winged and elegant, but looks less powerful than Eurasian Hobby, with which it may associate while hawking for insects. Males unmistakable, females distinctive. Juveniles can be confused with young Hobbies, but note juvenile Red-footed's barred uppertail. Often seen perched on telephone wires and posts. Nests in colonies mostly in old corvid nests, often of Rooks. Hunts over open and semiopen habitats, often near water.

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