Galapagos Species Database
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Falco peregrinus cassini
Halcón peregrino, Peregrine Falcon
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Falconiformes
Family
Falconidae
Genus
Falco
Species
peregrinus
Subspecies
cassini
Taxon category: Species with Infraspecific Taxa
Origin: Migrant
Distribution: Recorded regularly in small numbers, mainly in the boreal winter, November – March.
- Freile, J.F. Santander, T., Jiménez-Uzcátegui, G., Carrasco, L., Cisneros-Heredia, D., Guevara, E., Sánchez-Nivicela, M., Tinoco, B. (2019) Lista Roja de las aves del Ecuador Quito, Ecuador. 97 pp.
- Harris, M.P. (1973) The Galápagos avifauna. Condor 75(3): 265-278.
- Hickin, N. (1979) Animal life of the Galapagos. Ferundune Books, Faringdon, U.K., 236 pp.
- Millington, S.J. Price, T.D. (1982) Birds on Daphne Major 1979-1981. Noticias de Galápagos 35: 25-27.
- Wiedenfeld, D.A. (2006) Aves, the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Check List 2006 2(2): 1-27.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Falco peregrinus cassini", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=5084. Accessed 1 November 2026.