Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Megaclass Tetrapoda > Superclass Reptilia > Class Aves > Subclass Passerae > Superorder Ciconiimorphae > Order Falconiformes > Suborder Falconi > Superfamily Falconoidea > Family Falconidae > Genus Falco

Falco rusticolus Linnaeus, 1758

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Falco*	Linnaeus, 1758	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: jagtfalk sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: giervalk sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English: gyr falcon; gyrfalcon sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

French: faucon gerfaut sources: Avibase - the world bird database.

German: Gerfalke sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Greek: Γυρογέρακο sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Hebrew: בז sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Italian: girfalco; girifalco sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Lithuanian: medžioklinis sakalas sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian: jaktfalk sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: jaktfalk sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: jaktfalk sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: białozór sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: кречет sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: arktični sokol sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: halcón gerifalte sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: jaktfalk sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Turkish: ak sungur sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Кречет sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: hebog y gogledd

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p.
basis of record	Banks, R.C., R.W. McDiarmid, and A.L. Gardner. 1987. Checklist of vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Publication No. 166. 79 p.
additional source	Squires, H. J. (1990). Decapod Crustacea of the Atlantic coast of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 221: 532 p.
additional source	Robbins, C. S. (1983). Golden field Guide to Birds of North America. Golden press. 360p.
additional source	Peterson, R.T.; Peterson, V.M. (2002). A field guide to the birds of eastern and central North America. Fifth Edition. Peterson Field Guide Series. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York. 427 p.
additional source	Vanner, M. (2003). The encyclopedia of North American birds. Paragon Publishing. 1-383.