Shaheen falcon

Shaheen falcon
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Falconiformes
Family: Falconidae
Genus: Falco
Species:
F. peregrinus
Subspecies:
F. p. peregrinator
Trinomial name
Falco peregrinus peregrinator
Distribution limits based on Döttlinger (2002)
Synonyms
  • Falco atriceps
  • Falco shaheen
Shaheen falcon, miniature by Mansur. Mughal India, early 17th-century. Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya

The shaheen falcon (Falco peregrinus peregrinator) is a non-migratory subspecies of the peregrine falcon found mainly in India[2] It has also been described as a migratory subspecies.[3] Other common names for the subspecies include the black shaheen.[4] The word shaheen in these names may also be spelled as shahin.[5] This species was termed as the black shaheen by falconers to separate it from the true shaheen of Persian literature. Scholars of Persian and the Russian ornithologist Georgi Petrovich Dementiev have noted that the name shaheen in Persian literature actually referred to Falco peregrinus babylonicus.[6][7]

  1. ^ "ITIS Standard Report Page: Falco peregrinus peregrinator". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2014-04-18.
  2. ^ Döttlinger, Hermann; Nicholls, Mike (2005). "Distribution and population trends of the 'black shaheen' Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus peregrinator and the eastern Peregrine Falcon F. p. calidus in Sri Lanka" (PDF). Forktail. 21: 133–138.
  3. ^ Molard, Laurent; Kéry, Marc; White, Clayton M. (2007). "Estimating the resident population size of Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus in Peninsular Malaysia" (PDF). Forktail. 23: 87–91. Describes subspecies peregrinator "from the southern Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka", says "current range...is defined as extending eastward into northern Myanmar and central and south-eastern China", and possibly as vagrants in Malaysia, but that their taxonomic status in some regions is uncertain.
  4. ^ Various meanings of Shahin, (archive)
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference paas1965 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Dementiev, G.P. (1957). "On the shaheen Falco peregrinus babylonicus". Ibis. 99 (3): 477–482. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1957.tb01961.x.
  7. ^ Phillott, D. C. (1907). "Note on the Shahin Falcons (Falco peregrinator and F. barbarus, Blanford)". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 3: 389–393.