Sooty Falcon (Falco concolor)
About the Sooty Falcon
The sooty falcon (Falco concolor) is a medium-sized falcon, breeding from northeastern Africa to the southern Persian Gulf region, and wintering in East Africa (Mozambique, eastern South Africa) and Madagascar. The Sooty Falcon is part of the order Falconiformes, family Falconidae and genus Falco. The sooty falcon belongs to the hobby group, a rather close-knit number of similar falcons often considered a subgenus Falco. Eleonora's falcon F. eleonorae is sometimes considered its closest relative, but while they certainly belong to the same clade, they may not be direct sister species, with F. concolor possibly closer to Eurasian hobby F. subbuteo and African hobby F. cuvieri than it is to Eleonora's falcon.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 18 recordings for this species: 5 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.
Listed as recorded in Israel, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- American KestrelFalco sparveriusrecording
- Amur FalconFalco amurensisrecording
- Common KestrelFalco tinnunculusrecording
- Eurasian HobbyFalco subbuteorecording
- MerlinFalco columbariusrecording
- Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinusrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.