Merlin 
Taken at Barns Ness on 3rd October 2018 using Nikon D500  with Sigma 600 mm zoom lens.
Fact File

Female Juvenile
Taken at Barns Ness on 10th September 2017 using Nikon D5200 with Sigma 600 mm zoom lens.		 Fact File

Merlin.
Species :
Order:
Family:
Local names: 		Falco columbarius.
Falconiformes.
Falconidae.
Site Of Nest:
Length:
Wingspan:
Food:

Plumage:    Male:


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Breeding Period:
Eggs:
Migrates to Southern Europe and North Africa
24 - 33 cms.
50 - 73 cms.
Small birds in the size range of sparrows to quail with insects and small mammals to compliment its diet.
Blue-grey back, ranging from almost black to silver-grey in different subspecies.  Its underparts are buff- to orange-tinted and more or less heavily streaked with black to reddish brown.
The female and immature are brownish-grey to dark brown above, and whitish buff spotted with brown below.
May - June.
3 to 6  rusty brown eggs.

Voice

Courtesy of
Xeno Canto