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Falco tinnunculus
Medium-sized falcon with long wings and tail, wings rather narrow at base and sightly blunt at tips when spread. Hovers frequently with hanging tail spread like a fan. Back and upperwing-coverts reddish-brown, contrasting with darker flight-feathers.
Found in open country, on plains, by airfields, motorways, arable fields, heaths and marshes interspersed with woods or copses, also lower fells up to birth and willow zones. Nests in tree, often in old nest of corvid, or in building, in hole or niche.
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