Laggar Falcon (Falco jugger)
About the Laggar Falcon
The laggar falcon (Falco jugger) is a mid-sized bird of prey occurring in the Indian subcontinent from southeastern Iran, southeastern Afghanistan, Pakistan, through India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and northwestern Myanmar. It used to be one of the most common falcons in the region, but numbers have declined so that is probably nowhere a common species anymore. The main threats are the intensification of pesticide use and use as a decoy to trap large falcons. Fledglings have an almost entirely dark underside, and first-year subadult birds still retain much dark on the belly. Adults are dark overall and have blackish tibiotarsus feathers.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 2 recordings for this species: 2 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 India 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.