Eleonora's Falcon

• GeneralIt breeds in late summer so it can feed its chicks on migrating birds.
• comportamientoIt holds its breeding season back to late summer to coincide with the passage of migrating birds, which it feeds to its chicks.
• It breeds in August and September, far later than any other European raptor, so that its chicks grow just as millions of migrating birds cross the Mediterranean towards Africa: a perfect synchronisation with the calendar of its prey.
• Some pairs have been documented shutting small birds they have caught alive into cliff crevices, having pulled out their flight feathers, to eat them later: a living larder.
• It is named after Eleanor of Arborea, ruler of a Sardinian judicate, who in the 14th century enacted one of the earliest known laws protecting birds of prey.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bird)

Habitat and environment

Cliffs of islets and islands of the Mediterranean and Macaronesia; winters in Madagascar

Sexual maturity

17.9 months

Gestation / incubation

28 days of incubation

Litter / clutch size

3 eggs

Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falco_eleonorae

The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.