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title: "Red-footed Falcon"
description: "Falco vespertinus — Birds. The red-footed falcon (Falco vespertinus), formerly the western red-footed falcon, is a bird of prey."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/red-footed-falcon
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Red-footed Falcon

> Falco vespertinus — Birds. The red-footed falcon (Falco vespertinus), formerly the western red-footed falcon, is a bird of prey.

- Scientific name: *Falco vespertinus*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 5714
- Wikidata: [Q179625](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q179625)
- iNaturalist taxon: [4641](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4641)

## Names

- en: Red-footed Falcon
- de: Rotfußfalke
- es: Cernícalo patirrojo
- fr: Faucon kobez
- nl: Roodpootvalk
- pt: Falcão-de-pés-vermelhos
- pl: Kobczyk zwyczajny

## Countries with the most observations

RU (1954), UA (553), IT (537), AT (415), RO (294), FR (201), DE (141), HU (132), GR (114), PL (98), DZ (78), GB (75)

## Summary

The red-footed falcon (Falco vespertinus), formerly the western red-footed falcon, is a bird of prey. It belongs to the family Falconidae, the falcons. This bird is found in eastern Europe and Asia although its numbers are dwindling rapidly due to habitat loss and hunting. It is migratory, wintering in Africa. It is a regular wanderer to western Europe, and in August 2004 a red-footed falcon was found in North America for the first time on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-footed_falcon

## Photo

![Red-footed Falcon](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/red-footed-falcon/medium.jpg)

Photo: Patrascu Lucian-Marius · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/235382244

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/red-footed-falcon?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).