{"id":16206,"date":"2018-11-30T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/red-footed-falcon-pre-migration-roosting-site-monitoring-2018\/"},"modified":"2023-10-25T12:11:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T09:11:52","slug":"red-footed-falcon-pre-migration-roosting-site-monitoring-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milvus.ro\/en\/red-footed-falcon-pre-migration-roosting-site-monitoring-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-footed Falcon: Pre-migration Roosting Site Monitoring, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Travels 7,000 kilometres twice a year: in autumn, when leaves Europe and heads towards wintering grounds in Africa, and in spring, when makes the way back to the European breeding grounds. Crosses the Mediterranean in half a day, The Carpathian Mountains in two, and the Sahara Desert in less than three days. Females weigh around 165 grams, and males 142.<\/p>

This is the Red-footed falcon.<\/p>

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Falco vespertinus<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>

In 1766, Carl Linnaeus<\/a>, the father of taxonomy<\/a>, named the species Falco vespertinus<\/em>, vespertinus <\/em>in Latin meaning \u201eof evening\u201d, derived from vesper<\/em> \u2013 \u201eevening\u201d. The name also refers to \u201evesper\u201d, the Christian prayer service performed in the evening, which includes rituals and hymns expressing gratitude for the day that has just passed. In the Red-footed Falcon\u2019s case, this ritual is remarkably spectacular in their pre-migration<\/a> time, i.e. the end of summer and beginning of autumn.<\/p>

Quite often, numerous crowds gather in these roost sites that offer night shelter for the birds. This is why these are particularly important for the species. We can imagine them as roadside inns on large trade routes where travellers would find food and shelter in the Middle Ages.<\/p>

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