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Gyrfalcon

Falco rusticolus ORDER: FALCONIFORMES FAMILY: FALCONIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

The largest falcon in the world, the Gyrfalcon breeds in arctic and subarctic regions of the northern hemisphere. It preys mostly on large birds, pursuing them in breathtakingly fast and powerful flight.

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Calls

  • Captive calls
    Recorded by Andrea L. Priori
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Alarm call is a guttural "kak, kak, kak." Contact call, given during foraging and food transfer, is a sharp "chup...chup...chup."

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