African hobby

phylum	Chordata	The African Hobby is a small, slim falcon with blackish upperparts and deep rufous underparts with rufous cheek, nape and throat. At close range black streaks can be seen on the throat and flanks. The facial skin and feet are yellow. Juvenile birds are browner above with heavier streaking on the underparts and paler on cheek, nape and throat. Length 20 cm, wingspan 70 cm. It inhabits the edge of moist woodlands and forests, commonest in palm savannah and gallery forest in west and western regions of East Africa. It is less common in central Africa and north-eastern Africa. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to Falconiformes
clade	Diapsida
Class	Aves
order	Falconiformes
family	Falconidae
genus	Falco
species	F. cuvierii