Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Aplomado Falcon FAMILY - Falconidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Falco femoralis REFERENCES - 21 and 1 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Resident, species present all year. 22 Apparently secure in Belize 20 Uncommon: occur at low density in proper habitat. 20 U.S. Migratory Bird Treaty 16 District Reference Belize 4 Cayo 4 Orange Walk 7 Toledo 8 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve 12 Payne's Creek Wildlife Sanctuary 8 Rio Bravo Conservation Area Sighting Wet season 8 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 10 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 17 Chiquibul National Park Permanent 12 Monkey Bay Wildlife Sanctuary Dry season 5 Community Baboon Sanctuary 11 Community Baboon Sanctuary 13 Private land, see comments Collected as voucher 19 Private land, see comments Sighting August 14 Private land, see comments Dry season 7 Monkey River Special Development Area 15 Hydrologic Association Reference New River Lagoon 17 Belize River 13 Sibun River 5 Elevation Reference 1-200 m 14 1-200 m 17 1-200 m 18 1-200 m 19 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 30' to 88 45' 7 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 10 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 11 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 13 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 17 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 6 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 8 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 18 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 4 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 18 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 5 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 9 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 18 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 4 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 18 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 4 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 00' to 88 30' 19 16 45' to 17 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 12 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 12 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 9 16 15' to 16 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 8 16 15' to 16 30'; 88 15' to 88 30' 15 17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 10 17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 14 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 7 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical 19 Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical 18 Subtropical moist 17 Subtropical moist 14 Subtropical moist 13 General Distribution Comments 22* Rare northern semideciduous moist forest. Uncommon coastal/low-lands savannas, inc. marshy areas. 17* Uncommon in pine savanna, rare in scrub 8* Ycacos Lagoon. 7* Gold Button Ranch 3* Permanent resident, uncommon coastal savannas. References 1 A.O.U. 1983. Checklist of North American Birds. 6th Ed. 2 A.O.U. 1985, 1987, 1989. 35th-37th Supplements. 3 Wood, D.S.,R. C. Leberman, and D. Weyer. 1986. Checklist of Birds of Belize. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 12. 4 Miller, B. W., 1994. Belize Christmas Bird Counts, Twenty Year Summary. in prep. 5 Anon. 1994. Monkey Bay Checklist of Birds. Unpublished list. 6 Weyer, D. 1984. Diurnal Birds of Prey of Belize. The Hawk Trust. Vol. 14 pp.23 - 39. 7 Platt, S. 1993. Wildlife Survey of Gold Button Ranch, Belize. Unpublished report. 8 Russell, S. M. 1964. A Distributional Study of the Birds of British Honduras. Ornithological Monographs No. 1, A.O.U. 9 Wood, D. S., R. C. Leberman. 1987. Results of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History Expeditions to Belize. III. Distributional Notes on the Birds of Belize. Annals Carnegie Museum. 56(6):137-160. 10 Anon. 1994 (August). Working Checklist, Birds of Rio Bravo Conservation Management Area. Unpublished list. 11 O'Connell, S. 1987. in Horwich, R. H. and J. Lyon. The Community Baboon Sanctuary, A Guide Book. Orangu-tan Press, Gays Mills, WI. pp. 113. 12 Hallchurch, T.T., compiler. 1982. Exercise King Vulture Belize 23 Feb.- 16 March. Unpub. report for the British Army Bird Watching Society. 13 James, D., J. Bider. 1993. Bird List: Community Baboon Sanctuary, 1989- 1993 (derived from banding & census data, field notes). Unpublished data. 14 Robbins, Chandler. 1996. U.S.F.& Wildlife Service Wintering Bird Surveys for Belize. Unpublished data provided by C. Robbins. 15 Meerman, J.C. ed. 1995. Monkey River Special Development Area Stann Creek District, Belize. Belize Tropical Forest Studies Publication #5. Appendix: Bird List. Unpublished Technical report for B.E.S.T. 16 Title 50 Code of Federal Regulations, Subchapter B., Part 10.13: List of Migratory Birds. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1985 0-488-794. (Lists all species of migratory birds protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 U.S.C. 703-711). 17 Vallely, A. C., A. A. Whitman. 1996. The birds of Hill Bank, northern Belize. Unpublished report for Programme for Belize. 18 Miller, B. W. 1997. Belize Christmas Bird Count Summary 1970-1995. Data from American Birds Vol. 28-50 including 1973-1996. 19 Panza, R. 1997. Carnegie Museum, Division of Birds, Holdings of Belize specimens through Jun. 1, 1997. 20 Miller, B.W., C.M. Miller. 1997. Avian Risk Assessment for Belize, Species at Risk and of Conservation Concern. Report to Programme for Belize/TNC Wings of America Program. 21 A.O.U. 1997. Forty-first Supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list of North American Birds. The Auk. 114 (3):542-552. 22 Garcia, J., S. Matola, M. 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