---
title: "Raróg"
description: "Falco cherrug — Ptaki. The saker falcon (Falco cherrug) is a large falcon species."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/saker-falcon
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Raróg

> Falco cherrug — Ptaki. The saker falcon (Falco cherrug) is a large falcon species.

- Scientific name: *Falco cherrug*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 1351
- Wikidata: [Q165974](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q165974)
- iNaturalist taxon: [4691](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4691)

## Names

- en: Saker Falcon
- de: Würgfalke
- es: Halcón Sacre
- fr: Faucon sacre
- nl: Sakervalk
- pt: Falcão-sacre
- pl: Raróg

## Countries with the most observations

RU (435), CN (185), MN (125), UA (112), AT (85), HU (36), RS (25), KZ (20), FR (14), IN (14), CZ (10), IT (9)

## Summary

The saker falcon (Falco cherrug) is a large falcon species. It breeds from Central Europe eastwards across the Palearctic to Manchuria. It is a partial migrant, which means that some part of the population is migratory, some part is not. In Europe, for example, a part of the juveniles are migrating, while adults are mostly resident.  The European and West Asian migratory sakers spend the winter in the Sahel region. On migration, they cross the Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula, and Pakistan, where they are exposed to illegal trapping. The migratory birds to the east from Altai Mountains spend the winter in the Qinghai…

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

## Photo

![Raróg](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/saker-falcon/medium.jpg)

Photo: Yehor Yatsiuk · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/48427862

## Machine access

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