Amur Falcon

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A wonderful majestic image, splendid work.

Beautiful painting

He may be small, but he's majestic. Beautifully painted.

A beauty!

Thanks CA Jones....<br />Thanks Glennis Weston ...<br />Thanks Robert Jones Sir ...<br />Thanks Carole Swingler...

FOREIGN BIRDS ON MY CANVAS # 16 ...AMUR FALCON [FROM A PHOTOGRAPH OF MR. SAIBAL KUMAR SEN ...WATERCOLOUR ...A4 ... 2015 ....... The Amur falcon (Falco amurensis) is a small raptor of the falcon family. It breeds in south-eastern Siberia and Northern China before migrating in large flocks across India and over the Arabian Sea to winter in Southern Africa. It was earlier treated as a subspecies of the red-footed falcon (Falco vespertinus) and known as the eastern red-footed falcon. Males are dark grey with reddish brown thighs and undertail coverts; reddish orange eye-ring, cere, and feet. Females are duller above with dark scaly markings on white underparts, an orange eye ring, cere, and legs. Only a pale wash of rufous is visible on their thighs and undertail coverts. Their diet consists mainly of insects such as termites and during migration over the sea, are thought to feed on migrating dragonflies. The route that they take from Africa back to their breeding grounds is as yet unclear