ANIMAL

BIRD
BIRD
LANNER
THE LANNER FALCON IS A HANDSOME AND POWER-
FUL BIRD OF PREY, WITH GREY-BROWN TO SLATY
UNDERPARTS, A CREAMY WHITE THROAT AND
UNDERPARTS, SOMETIMES WITH THE DARK SPOTS
OR STRIPPING AND A CHARACTERISTIC RED-
DISH-BROWN CROWN ON THE HEAD
SAKER
THE SAKER CAN BE CATEGORIES AS A BIG AND STRONG FALCON.
IT LARGER THAN LANNER AND IT HAS VERY
WIDE WINGSPAN FOR ITS SIZE.
Sometimes, people miss looks at them and thought is a Peregrine Falcon
because of they has same size but the different is body colour. Lanners are divided
into Feldeggi breed in Europe and Erlangeri breed in North Africa. The latter is
a bit smaller with less spotted and paler underparts and a darker grey back.
During juveniles, both breeds are much slimmer with brownish back and dark
streaked underparts. Lanner falcons live on African seashores as well as in continenetals
areas, from Mauritius to Egypt. It can be found also in Italy, at Balkan
Peninsula, Turkey and small part of Asia. In Africa, we can found the nest in semi
desert areas of Moroccan Atlas until Lybia and around dry Savannah. In Europe,
They live in rocky areas with steep cliffs and also on littoral cliffs.
Lanner live in pairs but when comeout for hunting, they will do in group.
During hunting, female will acts like a beater and hunt out the victims while the
male remains a bit behind, ready to pounce down on the prey. This is quite rare
technics among the birds of prey but it can give them enough food to survive.
During hunting and flying, Lanner can be considered as one of the fastest falcon
during flying.
Usually, lanners don’t build their nest for breeding. They like to reused corvidae’s
old nest or diurnal birds of prey abandoned eyries. We can found the nest
on a ledge, at sheer promontory or a tree. Female lays 2-5 eggs between February
and March. Both of male and female will look around fro the eggs and normally
the youngs will fledge after 40 days after hatching.
The Saker can be categories as a big and strong falcon. it larger than
Lanner and it has very wide wingspan for its size. The Saker has a large range of
colour from dark brown to grey and almost white. Saker also can breed with gyrfalcons
and form a hybrid falcon. The saker originally coming from southeast
Europe and Asia. They can be found at open plains and forest steppes. They can
be found on the steppes of Mongolia, southern Siberia and around Russian Altai
mountains.
They spent most of their time hunting for mammals like rats, stoats, weasel,
Siberian chipmunks and birds. They dive fir their prey at 200mph. The Saker
falcons are aggressive hunter and often attack bigger prey than them. But normally
the female are more furious than male.
The Saker Falcon is the favorite bird among Arab Falconers. Many of the
birds are trapped in Arab countries when they are on the way to migration to
Middle East. They are being most favorite because it will help the falconers to
captured juvenile female sakers and train them to hunt because it’s easier to train
compare with adult. Sakers always be a target and caught over Asia Region and
sold to the Middle East falcon market. Without breeding, the sakers population is
in dangers of declining.
At the moment, there is no accurate figures how many saker falcons left,
but it is believed that there are getting extinct. Hopefully in the future our next
generations still have a chance to see the furious saker flying around.