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title: "Eleonora's Falcon"
description: "Falco eleonorae — Uccelli. Eleonora's falcon (Falco eleonorae) is a medium-sized falcon."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/eleonora-s-falcon
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Eleonora's Falcon

> Falco eleonorae — Uccelli. Eleonora's falcon (Falco eleonorae) is a medium-sized falcon.

- Scientific name: *Falco eleonorae*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 1495
- Wikidata: [Q212243](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q212243)
- iNaturalist taxon: [4671](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4671)

## Names

- en: Eleonora's Falcon
- de: Eleonorenfalke
- es: Halcón de Eleonora
- fr: Faucon d'Éléonore
- nl: Eleonora's valk
- pt: Falcão-da-rainha
- pl: Sokół skalny

## Countries with the most observations

GR (426), ES (256), IT (184), MA (82), DZ (73), FR (56), TR (50), IL (31), PT (22), HR (16), MG (12), GB (11)

## Summary

Eleonora's falcon (Falco eleonorae) is a medium-sized falcon. It belongs to the hobby group, a rather close-knit number of similar falcons often considered a subgenus Falco. The sooty falcon is sometimes considered its closest relative, but while they certainly belong to the same lineage, they do not seem to be close sister species. The English name and the species name eleonorae commemorate Eleanor of Arborea, Queen or Lady-Judge (Juighissa) and national heroine of Sardinia, who in 1392, under the jurisdiction conferred by the Carta de Logu, became the first ruler in history to grant protection to hawk and falcon…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleonora%27s_falcon

## Photo

![Eleonora's Falcon](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/eleonora-s-falcon/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jean-Paul Boerekamps · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/162093188

## Machine access

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